I’ve been reading Macintouch for decades, pretty much since it started back when its author was writing for MacWEEK magazine.
It’s shutting down because abusive robots (think AI) are causing server costs to go through the roof.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
https://www.macintouch.com/
Ralph Brandi
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