View Poll Results: Would you Subscribe to a Dedicated Magazine for BB Users.
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In my opinion, big mistake. If this is going to be a blackberry magazine about all things Blackberry, then you need to talk about and feature all active forums if you are going to talk about them at all. Why tell many of your potential readers, that their choice of a forum to read and participate in, is not worthy of being showcased, and in a sense is wrong. How would that fly if someone you are about to interview is a member of one of those forums and not Crackberry?
If you are going to be the first thing a new smartphone users sees, and they are just learning what's out there for Blackberries, do you want to be the one that only shows them one thing? Then when someone else comes along they show 100s of new things? Guess which magazine that newbie will be subscribing to a year later? And as soon as you come out with your magazines, there are sure to be a few more.
Heck if that's the case why not join up with Crackberry and call it CrackBerry.com, the Magazine?We are also going to start putting a list together of possible writers and contributors for the new magazine so if you would like to be involved send me an email to [email protected]
This is going to be a great project and one I am looking forward to. Its not going to compete with Crackberry.com, but instead compliment it.
Personally, I don't see any of the Blackberry sites as being in competition with each other. They all have their good points, looks and user base.
Who is your target audience for the mag?
Fanboy Crack Addicts?
New users?
People thinking of buying?
Gamers?
Technonerds that tweak everything they own?
Students?
Business people?
Average Joe/Jane needing something more than a phone?
What would your readers get from the mag, paper or electronic, that they can't get from a Blackberry forum/blog or qoogle search today?
What I'd like to see:
Timely Blackberry/cell phone information (the Serious to the SiLlY)
Interviews with Blackberry Designers
Info on why the Blackerry OS is written to do some things and not others, that seem to be basic in most other smartphones or lesser phones..
A good "How To Database", no matter where the sources are, you could pull them together or point them out.
Technical Reviews (the kind of stuff that makes most people's eyes glaze over), I like that stuff!!
Consumer Reviews (things Joe, not so average would notice and explore)
Who's Who, in the Blackberry world, blog writers, forum creators, Berry folks from ... well Blackberry.
Who are the beta testers, pre-release Berry reviewers, and what goes into becoming one of the "chosen few".
Blackberry Hacking aka making your Berry do things, only a crack addict would think of.
Info on the different BB models, reviews, comparisons, tips and tricks, work arounds for known problems/issues.
In the paper addition, if you have ads, I'd like to see them all in one section that way they are out of the way and I can read them later... and advertisers get all that space to themselves!
I like your online mag interface and layout, the one thing I would add, is the ability to landscape artwork, especially if here is text with the artwork. Example page 84 of your Heliops online issue. Enlarging it is great, reading it is another issue, if you didn't know to move the page around to view it once it was enlarged.
Would I subscribe? I don't know, have not seen a few issues to help me decide. Would I read a few issue to make up my mind? Yup.11-13-08 04:20 AM
