First post, by aries-mu
Hello fellow "COMPUTER" enthusiasts! (especially retro).
Should "computer" magazines cover dishwashers and refrigerators in most of their pages?
I bet you're thinking "no they shouldn't".
If so, let me add this: modern appliances are equipped with computers. They even have touchscreens and WiFi connections so that you can control them with your phone!
I bet you're thinking something like "I get that. But, still, we're talking about 'computer' magazines, not general electronics/technology magazines"; and, I agree with you.
The key is in the "most of their pages" part. We need balance. I get that it would be nice to know, from a little box or paragraph of the news section, that the newest Refrigerator from Zanussi has got a wordprocessor to add recipes and read them on-screen, or that Elon Musk added a games console to his latest Tesla car to play with when the vehicle is parked. But a COMPUITER MAGAZINE is not "mainly" about that. It's about COMPUTERS. At least it should be.
On the other hand, except very few exceptions, I noticed that "computer" magazines are filled up with pages talking about pads, pods, pids, puds, peds, iphones, iphines, iphenes, iphunes, iphanes, phones, smartphones, dumbphones, protophones, goggles, reality augmenters, wristwatches, electronic puppies, robots, vacuum cleaners, and tons of other small and tiny trinkets and toys that are flooding the market.
"But they've got computers inside!"
Great. Then why not cover the pages with refrigerators? Hey, water flossers might have computers inside. Even microbiology lab autoclaves do!
In my opinion, if you're making a COMPUTER magazine you gotta talk "mainly" about COMPUTERS. That is, those things which consist in a central processing unit (the main body of a laptop or the chassis of a desktop or tower computer), a monitor, and one or more control input device. Then you can talk a lot about its inner components, cards, expansions, its peripherals, and hardware/software, heck even games.
And I'm excluding the bloody tablets from the family.
If you, on the contrary, fill up your magazine with toys, then it's not a computer magazine, just change the damn name. Call it "electronics" magazine, or "technology" magazine.
What are your thoughts guys?
They said therefore to him: Who are you?
Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you