T3 Mag Philippines to continue publication

Well i don’t know how long this thing will last. Print Media is slowly dying in the US. Did i say slowly?!

So no April 09 issue yet? Sayang naman, well in that case i might buy gadgets mag na lang.. pero mas gusto ko T3. =)

A write up about YugaTech at http://www.betongchronicles.blogspot.com

Wanting to subscribe, I dropped by the summit site last month to send my particulars…T3 wasn’t on the list. Dropped summit an email, which was surprisingly immediately answered … “we don’t carry T3 anymore”.

I thought that was weird. These things are increasingly hard to find (I look for them at gasoline convenience stores now). I mean, If they’re “gone”, they must’ve been sold, right?

So I buy the latest issue, and somehow doubled on the editorial page, asking “Are these the same people from last January?”. Typos everywhere. Bad reviews. Unintelligible comments. Poor feature choices. Tragic.

Some guy in the letters section of that issue was asking about a color tone problem with his macbook pro (confirmed by several side-by-sides), and T3 answered something with like “yeah, color tone preference is different for each person”, which to me was like telling the poor guy to stop whining, and live with a yellow screen…forget the 100++ grand tag on the thing. Irritating stuff, to be quite honest.

So I felt something was wrong, and since then have said goodbye to arguably the best gad-mag of the country. It will be missed.

We can all go ahead and wait for “YugaTimes Monthly” instead. God bless you Abe. (hint, hint)

T3 magazine naman kasi ang nipis2 tapos puro ads pa mas madami pa ads kesa sa content..

I hope this is not “delaying the inevitable”.

All the best with T3.

1) What kind of Tech Magazine would that be? If it would be published just three times a year then I’m sure the news would be stale and the gadgets would be old who wants to buy a magazine like that?

2) The new T3 staff would then be out of place in any Tech events because manufacturers would surely need to be published ASAP after the launch.

3) Who would place advertisements in a three times a year magazine? The real reason why T3, Marie Claire and Seventeen Mags fold up is because SM decreased the budget for the 3 magazines to 240K annually from a whooppppping 9million pesos annually

4) Where will the four or five staff of the Magazine get the latest gadget and newest content? I am not undermining their abilities but I think not even one of the remaining staff is a true techie or has the connection to get the latest gadget or news.

5) An insider told me that Manila Bulletin is hiring all the displaced staff of T3. more on this as this develops.

Really?? well that’s cost-reduction.. and actually that’s fair enough as not every month there is something new to write about.. I’m just hoping that those 3 issues (a year) will be a lot more worth it as for sure the price tag will up a bit.. =)

Thats really sad that one of my favorite mag is slowly fading,imagine 3x a year?Im still reeling from the lost of GamesMasters Philippines magazine which went off last Sept 2006( I have that last issue and I love it).I bought my last T3 way back December and bought more back issues..I hope they will survive because it is a sentimental paper for me.Cheers!

Well, It does feel like their reviews are “marketing inspired” at select times…not all though. Waaaay better than Gadgets though, or Speed or something like that.

I’m talking about relativity here. It may not be the best one in the world, but it may well be the best one (once) available in these parts.

Oh and I don’t mind the ladies. They’re fine. ain’t nothing like a fine girl operating heavy machinery (i.e. macbook pro)

LOL. That was an one sided POV. I am sure I agree.