Scripting News: Saturday, December 6, 2025
Saturday, December 6, 2025 If we really want tech to get back to basics we need pubs that function as product reviewers, like we have entertainment reviewers . There's so much software and so many isolated bubbles of developers, when there's a development that shakes the world less than ChatGPT, I might not hear about it for ten years, or might never hear about it. In the 80s we had lots of pubs that covered all kinds of products at a user level. There were 15 popular word processing apps, for example -- all made a decent living, and remember there were a lot fewer users then. Three spreadsheets on the PC and two on the Mac. It was possible because we had PC Week, MacWEEK, MacUser, MacWorld, PC Mag, PC World, InfoWorld , Dr Dobbs, BYTE, Popular Computing, Creative Computing, and I'm sure I'm leaving some out. Some great writers , and insightful reviews about what it's like to actually use the stuff. I had a product reviewed in the NY Times if yo...