End of the Road for MacNN
It’s kind of amazing we made it this far - only TidBITs and MacWorld are older and still around - but we’ve been told we’re packing it in. We’ve joked before that Apple becoming a huge mainstream company is the worst thing that ever happened to us, but it’s true: there’s less need for an Apple-specific news site when news about Apple is plastered everywhere, on every site, all the time. This is not the sole reason why we’re having to give up our comfy home (and just after repainting it, too!), but it’s part of the reality we’ve been working in.
I’ve been reading MacNN since the beginning. It was one of the essential “blogs” from the early Mac Web, along with sites like MacInTouch, MacFixIt, MacCentral, and The Mac Resource Page.
Update (2016-07-09): Adam C. Engst:
Sadly, the Mac news site MacNN, founded in 1995, has announced that it will no longer be publishing regularly, and the venerable New York City Apple reseller Tekserve is closing its doors for retail sales and service. On the upside, particularly for those trying to establish the technical particulars of some older Mac model, the Apple spec site EveryMac.com celebrated its 20th anniversary on 2 July 2016 and the spec app Mactracker marked its 15th anniversary back on 14 May 2016.
I confess I stopped reading MacNN years ago. I was a regular poster back in late 90's up through at least 911. Finding out it is shutting down is shocking more like discovering Slashdot is still around. I checked out MacNN forum years ago and it was largely dead then.