Shuffle is distributed at Office1 - Qatar

[Zaid Al Hilali]

If you happen to be in Doha - Qatar, you can prick your free copy of Shuffle from Office1 at the Apple Macintosh section.

Many thanks for our friend Abdullah Al-Sulaiti for taking a full box of Shuffle to Office1

[crystal]

That is great news!!! Thank you, Abdullah, that is very nice of you.

[Magnus]

Now Shuffle is starting to earn the label "Middle East"

[Superglue]

In my recent travels, I picked up a copy of 'Macworld' October '07 issue from the US for my in-flight reading. It came with total of 112 pages (50% of pages are ads though!). But I have to say, in comparison, I feel our own 'Shuffle' is much much better lovely product with rich articles & stuff and also better quality paper ( higher gsm paper or some ting). Kudos to Magnus & all those lovely people involved and long live our own 'Shuffle'

[Magnus]

Thank you Superglue for your kind words. The percentage of ads is the simple truth for commercial magazines I think. And if we wanted to expand shuffle with more pages, more copies, and distribution we also have to increase the percentage of ads.

[venky83]

Originally Posted by EmiratesMac

Thank you Superglue for your kind words. The percentage of ads is the simple truth for commercial magazines I think. And if we wanted to expand shuffle with more pages, more copies, and distribution we also have to increase the percentage of ads.

But will you compromise the quality like MacWorld has done according to Superglue, I think Superglue was taking more about the quality of print, articles and what we have in it, I do not think that commercial aspects has anything to do with the quality. The quality should not be brought down when MacWorld is making money!!!

After all quality is an Apple thing!!!!!

[Superglue]

Originally Posted by venky83

But will you compromise the quality, I think Superglue was taking more about the quality of print, articles and what we have in it, I do not think that commercial aspects has anything to do with the quality. The quality should not be brought down when you are making money!!!

After all quality is an Apple thing!!!!!

Well... I don't think our 'Shuffle' is making any money out of it and its truly lots of hard work of a bunch of passionate apple people here

[Magnus]

Originally Posted by venky83

The quality should not be brought down when you are making money!!!

Who's making money? We're not. In fact, we've paid out of our own pockets to be able to print many issues. That's not including the time spent on putting it together, the equipment and consumables needed.

And whichever type of quality (in terms of content or the printing) we're talking about it cost money. Printing better quality cost more, and producing higher quality cost more in terms of time. But in principle I agree. Quality should not suffer in order to just make money. But publishing is not cheap, and that's not even talking about people's time. In the long run quality in terms of good content wins though. Short term gain can be got through better printing, but if content also doesn't follow suit then I think it'll be just that, short term.

[venky83]

Originally Posted by Superglue

Well... I don't think our 'Shuffle' is making any money out of it and its truly lots of hard work of a bunch of passionate apple people here

Originally Posted by EmiratesMac

Who's making money? We're not. In fact, we've paid out of our own pockets to be able to print many issues. That's not including the time spent on putting it together, the equipment and consumables needed.

And whichever type of quality (in terms of content or the printing) we're talking about it cost money. Printing better quality cost more, and producing higher quality cost more in terms of time. But in principle I agree. Quality should not suffer in order to just make money. But publishing is not cheap, and that's not even talking about people's time. In the long run quality in terms of good content wins though. Short term gain can be got through better printing, but if content also doesn't follow suit then I think it'll be just that, short term.

You guys got me wrong, I know about shuffle, I was talking about MacWorld making money not Shuffle and the criticism about the quality was wrt Superglue's comments on MacWorld not being as good as Shuffle.

Which is why I ended my post by saying - Quality is an Apple thing.

My apologies for not having made it clear I was taking about the MacWorld.

[Superglue]

Originally Posted by venky83

You guys got me wrong, I know about shuffle, I was talking about MacWorld making money not Shuffle and the criticism about the quality was wrt Superglue's comments on MacWorld not being as good as Shuffle.

Which is why I ended my post by saying - Quality is an Apple thing.

My apologies for not having made it clear I was taking about the MacWorld.

Oops ! Sorry mate, in that case