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Re: Mac User Groups in decline

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Alan Browne:
> Since users find most 'help' online in various forums (including 
> Apple's) the old club style community Mac User Group has taken a beating.

> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/technology/personaltech/apple-mac-user-group
> s-devotees-press-on.html

I read that article just before checking in here.

As a past treasurer, webmaster, and president of the MUG "Annapolis
Apple Slice" who left the club some years back, I have to agree that
the MUG is obsolete. Apple stores, the Mac news sites like the
venerable TidBITS; Ric Ford's 21-year-old MacInTouch; and a vast number
of other Internet resources have contributed to the decline of the
MUGs.

In its heyday AAS met each month and had a big summer picnic and a
popular end-of-year holiday party. We held events at upscale retirement
communities where significant numbers of writers, scientists, artists,
and other intellectuals were using Macs. Now the group meets nine times
per year and the special events are gone. AAS once drew as speakers
engineers from Apple and Adobe, musicians, photographers and
videographers, and other persons of importance to Mac users. Now the
answers and product previews and reviews are all on the Web. It got
repetitive, with the same senior citizens stumped by the same problems
with TextEdit or AppleWorks every month, with no broad interest in the
advanced things that the Mac can do, and I was driven out by ennui.

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