Its about time one of these tech blogs realized they're posting about 50 stories a day, and 30 of them are either Apple or iPhone stories for half a year now. I mean, I like how Apple pushes forward technology, but sheesh! We don't need to know when iphones have been spotted in the wild, or what Steve Jobs is having for dinner.
I know the Zune had lots of coverage, but nowhere NEAR the amount the iPhone is having. Don't get me wrong- I love to know the news on all technology, but i believe it was Engadget or Gizmodo that decided to have a roundup of iPhone articles to throw them at us everday (unless it was breaking news type stuff). Unfortunately, that never happened and iphone/apple details have become basically spam.
Continuation: Forgot to mention- I don't feel Engadget goes too overboard on iPhone/Apple news. Gizmodo on the other hand... basically, Foxnews is to the Republican Party as Gizmodo is to Apple
I'm not complaining that Engadget is taking initiative- I'm complaining that this doesn't seem like a good fix. A "Roundup" is a better fix- basically, put ALL the minuscule and not-so-useful iPhone articles into one main post daily (hey, maybe even bi-daily!) and if theres breaking news.
Basically- the "all or none" deal seems a bit drastic. How about just putting a little more thought into what is actually news before putting it out there?
We don't like doing roundups of minor news, it's not really our thing.
As for what gets written up, we are extremely judicious in picking stories. Not everyone thinks every story is news, but hey, you can't please everybody! We write about the stuff we think is interesting, and we hope you like what we come up with. If not, it's not exactly complicated to scroll past it in your aggregator or on the page!
I understand. I've stated a few times Engadget doesn't really do it so bad as Giz. But I go back and forth between both of them daily and I mix up the articles sometimes and mistake that you are the ones doing it. I think what I'm mainly getting at is I hope Giz takes notice of Engadget and realizes people are getting sick of the 6-7 articles you posted in the past 20 hours compared to their 13-15 "yay apple, boo microsoft" ones
This is NOT an issue of freedom of speech and/or someones rights at all. It is not censorship. If you want to be a smartass and try to define it for us, try to realize that in no way is Engadget keeping anyone from viewing these stories. Even if they chose not to EVERY show an Apple story ever again, thats not censorship in anyway.
What they are doing, is allowing people like myself who have had enough of reading 30 different apple/iphone stories every day that are less than useful in the life of even an average Apple fanboy, to not have to deal with them anymore... however, as brought up numerous times- its too drastic and despite our hatred for being bombarded with these articles, we still like to know whats going on in the Apple-world with RELEVANT and useful NEWS. NOT non-news (Steve Jobs is caught sending an e-mail on his iPhone while eating dinner he ordered from his Mac!).
Dan, you wrote that tech blogs have been "posting about 50 stories a day, and 30 of them are either Apple or iPhone stories for half a year now". I was curious how accurate that is, so I counted the stories at Gizmodo (I went over there since others commented that Gizmodo is more Apple-centric than Engadget).
Over the past two days (Tue and Wed), 11 or 12 stories out of 126 were directly about Apple. Another 6 or 7 were about Apple-related spoofs, third party products, competing products, etc. So ~9% of the stories are about Apple directly and another ~5% of the stories mention 3rd party products or competing products that relate to Apple.
That's a lot of Apple news, but it's no where near the 60% ratio you suggested, and if we went back and tallied it over the last six months, I'd bet there were less Apple-related stories than that (since we're currently in the midst of iPhone hype with a week to go to its launch).
Here's the detailed breakdown in case anyone is curious:
Wed 59 total posts; 11 directly/indirectly related to Apple:
- Apple announces YouTube will be on iPhone - Gizmodo post saying that RAZR price was similarly priced - iPhone dock revealed - Leapord probably pirated - Gizmodo giving away iPhone - OS X 10.4.10 out - Apple YouTube tour - WSJ story about iPhone being unable to send email through BlackBerry servers - Onion iPhone parady - iPhone commercial spoof - iPod speakers compared
Tue 67 posts; 7 directly/indirectly related to Apple:
- Apple tests iPhone battery - 3rd party Macbook case - 3rd party product to speedup itunes downloads - nintendo working on iphone games - Opera browser supposed to take on iPhone - Gizmodo job opportunity for something Apple-related - long AT&T job line in Manhattan (story speculates that the extra employees will be needed for the iPhone launch)
at the end of the day there was a simple answer.... read the news title if it doesnt intrest you dont read the rest of it you lazy ass moaning people! These guys just report all the current tech news whoever its from, just so happens that Apple are in the spot light atm, in 3 months time could be MS or Intel or anyone. Just face it Apple are doing all the mainstream ground breaking stuff and if your into gadgets then you should read them, its showing u whats likley to come soon from other outlets.
Anyway back to my point, there was no need for Engadget to have to mess around making this special feed for the lazy people out there who are too lazy to read the title of the article and decided if they wanna read it. I dont read anything AMD related as i am not a fan of AMD, i have always had Intel chips in both macs, PC's and Laptops.
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Its about time one of these tech blogs realized they're posting about 50 stories a day, and 30 of them are either Apple or iPhone stories for half a year now. I mean, I like how Apple pushes forward technology, but sheesh! We don't need to know when iphones have been spotted in the wild, or what Steve Jobs is having for dinner.
I know the Zune had lots of coverage, but nowhere NEAR the amount the iPhone is having. Don't get me wrong- I love to know the news on all technology, but i believe it was Engadget or Gizmodo that decided to have a roundup of iPhone articles to throw them at us everday (unless it was breaking news type stuff). Unfortunately, that never happened and iphone/apple details have become basically spam.
Dude, why are you complaining? You got what you wanted!
Continuation: Forgot to mention- I don't feel Engadget goes too overboard on iPhone/Apple news. Gizmodo on the other hand... basically, Foxnews is to the Republican Party as Gizmodo is to Apple
I'm not complaining that Engadget is taking initiative- I'm complaining that this doesn't seem like a good fix. A "Roundup" is a better fix- basically, put ALL the minuscule and not-so-useful iPhone articles into one main post daily (hey, maybe even bi-daily!) and if theres breaking news.
Basically- the "all or none" deal seems a bit drastic. How about just putting a little more thought into what is actually news before putting it out there?
We don't like doing roundups of minor news, it's not really our thing.
As for what gets written up, we are extremely judicious in picking stories. Not everyone thinks every story is news, but hey, you can't please everybody! We write about the stuff we think is interesting, and we hope you like what we come up with. If not, it's not exactly complicated to scroll past it in your aggregator or on the page!
I understand. I've stated a few times Engadget doesn't really do it so bad as Giz. But I go back and forth between both of them daily and I mix up the articles sometimes and mistake that you are the ones doing it. I think what I'm mainly getting at is I hope Giz takes notice of Engadget and realizes people are getting sick of the 6-7 articles you posted in the past 20 hours compared to their 13-15 "yay apple, boo microsoft" ones
I heard dinner is at 830
kvocal:
This is NOT an issue of freedom of speech and/or someones rights at all. It is not censorship. If you want to be a smartass and try to define it for us, try to realize that in no way is Engadget keeping anyone from viewing these stories. Even if they chose not to EVERY show an Apple story ever again, thats not censorship in anyway.
What they are doing, is allowing people like myself who have had enough of reading 30 different apple/iphone stories every day that are less than useful in the life of even an average Apple fanboy, to not have to deal with them anymore... however, as brought up numerous times- its too drastic and despite our hatred for being bombarded with these articles, we still like to know whats going on in the Apple-world with RELEVANT and useful NEWS. NOT non-news (Steve Jobs is caught sending an e-mail on his iPhone while eating dinner he ordered from his Mac!).
Dan, you wrote that tech blogs have been "posting about 50 stories a day, and 30 of them are either Apple or iPhone stories for half a year now". I was curious how accurate that is, so I counted the stories at Gizmodo (I went over there since others commented that Gizmodo is more Apple-centric than Engadget).
Over the past two days (Tue and Wed), 11 or 12 stories out of 126 were directly about Apple. Another 6 or 7 were about Apple-related spoofs, third party products, competing products, etc. So ~9% of the stories are about Apple directly and another ~5% of the stories mention 3rd party products or competing products that relate to Apple.
That's a lot of Apple news, but it's no where near the 60% ratio you suggested, and if we went back and tallied it over the last six months, I'd bet there were less Apple-related stories than that (since we're currently in the midst of iPhone hype with a week to go to its launch).
Here's the detailed breakdown in case anyone is curious:
Wed 59 total posts; 11 directly/indirectly related to Apple:
- Apple announces YouTube will be on iPhone
- Gizmodo post saying that RAZR price was similarly priced
- iPhone dock revealed
- Leapord probably pirated
- Gizmodo giving away iPhone
- OS X 10.4.10 out
- Apple YouTube tour
- WSJ story about iPhone being unable to send email through BlackBerry servers
- Onion iPhone parady
- iPhone commercial spoof
- iPod speakers compared
Tue 67 posts; 7 directly/indirectly related to Apple:
- Apple tests iPhone battery
- 3rd party Macbook case
- 3rd party product to speedup itunes downloads
- nintendo working on iphone games
- Opera browser supposed to take on iPhone
- Gizmodo job opportunity for something Apple-related
- long AT&T job line in Manhattan (story speculates that the extra employees will be needed for the iPhone launch)
at the end of the day there was a simple answer.... read the news title if it doesnt intrest you dont read the rest of it you lazy ass moaning people! These guys just report all the current tech news whoever its from, just so happens that Apple are in the spot light atm, in 3 months time could be MS or Intel or anyone. Just face it Apple are doing all the mainstream ground breaking stuff and if your into gadgets then you should read them, its showing u whats likley to come soon from other outlets.
Anyway back to my point, there was no need for Engadget to have to mess around making this special feed for the lazy people out there who are too lazy to read the title of the article and decided if they wanna read it. I dont read anything AMD related as i am not a fan of AMD, i have always had Intel chips in both macs, PC's and Laptops.
Matt