MacInTouch is a daily news and information website that provides independent coverage of Apple's Mac

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 and iOS

IOS

iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...

platforms, along with other topics as security and privacy, networking, and technological innovation. MacInTouch's curated "Reader Reports" publish experiences, commentary and analysis from the reader community. MacInTouch also provides daily product updates and occasional product reviews.

History

“MacInTouch” began as an independent print journal in 1985 (originally published by Ford-LePage Inc.) to provide news and information about Macintosh computers. The MacInTouch Home Page website, created by Ric Ford in 1994, was serving daily Mac news and information to more than a million people by 1998. It's noted as being one of several blog-style sites that predate the definition of a blog.

MacInTouch Inc. is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Other

In 1999, MacInTouch was noted in Linux Today for "Most tasteful and cool April foolishness: MacInTouch's transformation to MonkInTouch, complete with piano motif and lots of links to Thelonious Monk stuff."