McCracken on TUAW shutting down


Harry McCracken for Fast Company:

TUAW, meanwhile, just kept on being TUAW--a concise, smart, useful guide to the Apple news of the day, with contributions from a bunch of knowledgable folks. (Its editors at the end included Victor Agreda, Jr., Michael Rose, and others.) If the site got more far-flung over the years, it was mostly because Apple kept entering new product categories, not because the original concept had grown stale.

TUAW started out a part of the Engadget network. After AOL bought Engadget, TUAW seemed to have left to wilt. Gaming site Joystick also came to AOL with Engadget and it too is going away. The news of TUAW shutting down comes a few months after Macworld Magazine shut down.

Apple's the biggest company in the world and gets wide coverage for every move and rumor. It wasn't that long ago the company struggled to get coverage and thus Apple customers had to seek out outlets specializing in that Apple coverage.