reviews, tips, and podcasts. The site was launched on December 29, 1998 by Dave Hamilton and Bryan Chaffin. The site has evolved from just providing news and reviews to now hosting popular podcasts, columns, and more. History The macobserver.com domain was registered on December 17, 1998 and the site launched on December 29 of that same year. The Mac Observer came into existence when Dave Hamilton and Bryan Chaffin acquired Webintosh from Dan Hughes, an Apple-focused site which ran for three years prior. Podcasts Starting in 2005, The Mac Observer has been developing its own podcasts and continues producing them to this day. Current podcasts include Mac Geek Gab (hosted by Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun), Media+(hosted by Charlotte Henry), The Apple Context Machine (hosted by Bryan Chaffin), and The Mac Observer's Daily Observations (hosted by Kelly Guimont). Country-specific France Until 2007, the Apple Expo trade show was held yearly in Paris, and attended by Apple, which held a number of keynotes at the Expo. Former Macintosh division lead Jean-Louis Gassé, a Frenchman, was notable in France as an advocate for personal computing, and contributed to Apple's "remarkable" success in that country. French Apple news sites include: In 1996, Macworld bought Golden magazine, and renamed it Macworld France. Two years later, it was renamed after merging with the magazine; in 2003, the French version of the magazine changed its name to Macworld. Bernard Le Du, a French Macworld journalist, later started his own magazine, . is another notable French magazine, which went online-only in 2017. Apple evangelist An Apple evangelist, also known as Mac(intosh) evangelist or Mac advocate, is a technology evangelist for Apple products. The term "software evangelist" was coined by Mike Murray of the Macintosh division. Apple's first evangelist was Mike Boich, a member of the original Macintosh development team. Alain Rossmann succeeded him. Their job was to promote Apple products, primarily by working with third-party developers. Boich and Rossmann later took part in the founding of Radius together. One prominent Apple evangelist is Apple Fellow Guy Kawasaki. Kawasaki is credited as being one of the first to use evangelistic methods to promote a computer platform through a blog. Apple formerly had a "Why Mac?" evangelist site. The page no longer exists, but the company subsequently ran Get a Mac, which gave numerous reasons why "PC users" should switch to Macs. Several third-parties still host and maintain