Trade Publication RCR Wireless Shuts Down
This is likely more a statement about the news business than it is about the wireless industry. But after more than 25 years, RCR Wireless is shutting down its biweekly print publication and its web site as of noon today. A Crain Communications spokeswoman told minonline: “I think more than anything they had been hit hard by the financial meltdown.” About 20 employees, mostly in the publication’s main office in Golden, Col., were given notice today. On RCR’s web site, a simple note says: “Unfortunately, the market for RCR’s products has been hit particularly hard by the global financial meltdown.” As a competing publication, it’s sad to see our ranks thinner, but then there’s always us. We will continue our sharp focus on mobile content and the applications ecosystem and the business behind it all.
Very sad indeed. We're losing too many voices when we lose newspapers and magazines, and letting go all that expertise and knowledge is tragic. RIP RCR – staffers, hang in there, just keep writing.
Good riddance. These losers and their editorial were complete shills for the carriers and CTIA. It is only good for the future of the mobile industry that this voice is silenced. The new paradigm (driven by the iPhone and Android) will be reported on by people who get it: the traditional tech and internet reporting outlets. They have the smarts to know that the carrier world is screwed up and will bring the right level of oversight to an industry that is still largely broken. RCR being dead can only help in ensuring that the right voices and viewpoints emerge to keep things moving in the right direction.
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