When I started getting into the Amiga in the early '90s, with my floppy disk based CDTV, I loved these mags. My wife and I (then, she was my girlfriend) used to go into town every Sunday and buy the latest ones from Barnes and Noble. She wasn't even into the Amiga (and FWIW, my 3000 0WN3D her Performa, both with 040 CPUs) but she read the mags because they were so well written.
When AF and CU packed it in, I remember sitting there at my computer desk with the last issue of CU (IIRC), the one with the big Monty Python style foot on the cover, and I think I almost cried!
It was such a bummer.
Modern Mac mags are sometimes close, but spend far too much time fellating Apple and the latest Jobsian edict, be it soft or hardware.
I know we didn't pull it off, but we did sort of have the Apple store six years ago at Amiga. (this was when my job at Amiga was testing apps that people sent in, among other things.)
You submitted your apps, Amiga pimped 'em, both parties made money. OK, Amiga might not be at the 'made money' part of it yet, but I think it's safe to say that Amiga did, actually, think of it first.
Credit where it's due.
