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To: BillHoo who wrote (14127)	5/29/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: soup	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 213177

Byte Me! Byte Magazine Taken Out of Circulation. via NY Times >"The irony is there was less reason for Byte to exist as Windows became synonymous with desktop computing. But now that people are looking for alternatives to Windows, the need for a magazine like this becomes more critical." There was speculation this week over whether CMP had bought McGraw Hill's technology group, particularly Byte, simply to acquire its mailing list. CMP publishes a competitor, Windows Magazine, and competes with PC Magazine and PC World for advertising dollars and readers. John Dvorak, a columnist with PC Magazine, said he was "baffled" by CMP's intentions. "Did they see it as an enemy of Windows Magazine? I'm sure that the people running Byte would have preferred pooling their resources and buying the magazine themselves as a leveraged buyout," he said. "The sad thing is that Byte is a symbolic and historic publication that should not have met with such an ignominious finale. It's a crime." < nytimes.com Anybody but me pissed that Byte, whose benchmarks were being used by AAPL as the basis for it performance-driven ads, is being cancelled by the publisher controlled by Intel. I think AAPL (singly or in partnership) should buy BYTE and continue it as an independent cross-platform publication. soup