Meta, Engadget's top posts, 2007
By Ryan Block 
posted December 31st 2007 11:59PM
posted December 31st 2007 11:59PM
Top 20 most trafficked posts of 2007 (in order)
- Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote
- Steve Jobs live -- Apple's "The beat goes on" special event
- Live from Apple's summer Mac product press conference
- The Apple iPhone
- Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2007
- Xbox 360 Elite: new, black limited edition Xbox with HDMI and 120GB drive
- iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT
- iPhone review
- The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr
- Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously
- Live from Apple's "Mum is no longer the word" event in London
- Apple keynote: live from NAB 2007
- Is this the new iMac keyboard?
- iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
- The Wii Laptop!
- Apple's iPod touch gets official
- The Motorola RAZR 2
- LG's KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha?
- Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown
- Xbox 360 Elite vs. classic: the test
Top 20 most trafficked posts during 2007 (in order; non-2007 posts in bold)
- Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote
- Steve Jobs live -- Apple's "The beat goes on" special event
- Live from Apple's summer Mac product press conference
- The Apple iPhone
- Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2007
- Xbox 360 Elite: new, black limited edition Xbox with HDMI and 120GB drive
- How-to: Get music OFF your iPod
- iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT
- iPhone review
- Turn your PC into a Mac
- Blu-ray vs HD DVD: State of the Division
- How-to: Get videos and DVDs onto your Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) for free
- The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr
- Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously
- Live from Apple's "Mum is no longer the word" event in London
- Apple keynote: live from NAB 2007
- Is this the new iMac keyboard?
- iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
- The Wii Laptop!
- Apple's iPod touch gets official
- Xbox 360 Elite: new, black limited edition Xbox with HDMI and 120GB drive
- Blu-ray vs HD DVD: State of the Division
- How-to: Get videos and DVDs onto your Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) for free
- The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr
- Nokia's iPhone -- no, seriously
- iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
- The Wii Laptop!
- The Motorola RAZR 2
- LG's KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha?
- Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown
- Xbox 360 Elite vs. classic: the test
- Sony's new PSP is slimmer, includes video output
- Rumor: CompUSA going out of business in January
- FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM!
- Steorn's Orbo "free-energy" machine demonstrated!
Posts: exactly 12,000 (including this one here -- our very last post of the year)
Comments: 727,816 (and counting)
Average comments per post: 60.65
Combined Engadget classic, HD, and Mobile stats
Posts: 18,489
Comments: 942,759 (and counting)
Average comments per post: 51
Great List!
Dude, I'm a Linux guy (former Windows user) who's never touched a Mac in my life and probably never will and I still knocked your comment down one. Yes, Engadget is Apple-happy, but so what? They also seem to be huge fans of the X-Box 360, for one thing, and they made it a point to make iPhone-less RSS feeds just to better serve their readers.
The only people I know who even read Engadget are Windows users, and it's because they know it's a good site with solid information, even if it is more tilted towards Apple than Microsoft. If you don't like it, stop reading. Simple as that.
Maybe its just a lot of Apple Stuff because this site is called enGADGET and things like the iPhone obviously qualify better as gadgets than the latest MS Office. And Job's speeches smell more like gadgets than Steve Ballmer throwing chairs.
Think about it.
... says somebody who owns not a single Apple product, but all Windows's since 3.0 (except ME and Vista = ME2.0).
I downvoted you too. As it's been said many times before, if you don't like it, go somewhere else. Or, even better, start your own blog, you could never post about apple, ever, no matter what. Wouldn't that be awesome? It could be your own little engadget hate-blog. So leave, no one wants you here. SIOOMA.
Lets start off the New Year right and vote down all the anti-Apple people. They probably think Windows Vista and the Zune should be at the head of the list. WRONG!
Apple FTW 2008 and beyond. Let's all look forward to more exciting Apple news. New MacPro, new MacBook thin, iPhone 2.0 and Penryn MacBook Pros.
"Lets start off the New Year right and vote down all the anti-Apple people. "
how about you let them be entitled to their opinion as you Apple users want to rant whenever you come across a Microsoft/Windows related story.
If I'm understanding some of you "apple people"
*You dont want non Apple news
*You want to silence them for raising concerns and complaints.
*Non Apple devices should be given 2nd rate status because you love Apple.
*You are basically undercutting Ryan Blocks statement that this isn't an Apple blog.
It just is so telling the personality of Apple fanatics when they think they have a friendly place to let loose. They release their inner fascist.
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I think that apple posts have the most comments because of conversations exactly like this one. People hate that engadget is so pro-apple, and they let them know it in the comments...
The comment "Man, people really seem to like apple" is proof that engadget is so pro-apple. It's a complete disregard for the actual content in the comments from the daily readers of engadget...poor form...again...
Wow, someone actually deleted my post.
Interesting statistics, Thanks for going through the effort to find and post them!
Happy New Years!
I'm thinking it's more than just "us people" who like Apple, Mr. Block...
14 out of 20 stories in the first list are apple-related. Vote me down for it, so be it.
No offense Engadget, fellow readers, but the apple bias stands out right there in pure objective statistics. Very well compiled and interesting, I might add. I wish other blogs posted this kind of statistical information.
The list is ranked in the order of traffic, not by engadget's favorite. This means that this is due to people like YOU and me, not engadget.
There could be 5 posts per minute about microsoft's zune or vista but I'm willing to bet its not going to get nearly as much traffic. Apple has done it right this year with their ass kicking products (take a look at their stock. Jobs may be an ass to you but he's made me a lot of money).
Again, this list isn't based on the number of posts from engadget's writers BUT on interest from people like me and YOU.
Don't hate on engadget; they just report the latest and hotest gadgets out -- like what they are supposed to do.
I fail to see how the most widely read posts of the year have anything to with "bias". Maybe you mean "preference"? Either way, the only thing numbers speak to are the interests of the readership at large.
Comment above typed from my iPhone.. while taking a crap.
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE!
I understand and qualified my understanding that these rankings represent reader preferences.
However, my point still stands. What your readership desires, you obviously provide. Quite admirably I might add. Believe me, it's pretty obvious that what you're doing, works, so keep it up next year.
This is just a question I'm sure others are asking, but since when are engadget editors/writers/contributors commenting on their own posts? I understand that objective journalism requires fair chance of rebuttal, but when did this start happening?
Ryan alone posted 409 comments over the past year, to my calculations. Look it up on his profile.
While we're talking stats, these are the number of Engadget posts I got from doing a quick search on some companies of my choosing:
apple: 153
microsoft: 142
asus: 175
sony: 85
dell: 130
nintendo: 74
nokia: 115
palm: 111
(Ok, so individual devices might have more hits... like the iPhone at 295 and Zune at 174... but there are too many such devices to do a decent listing, and it should be obvious that the iPhone would win that battle.)
The stats above are for 2007 only.
The stats above are for 2007 only.
I think you guys are way off base, and I'm going to defend Ryan here.
2007 was a big year for Apple. Like it or not, the iPhone was the biggest gadget news of the year, by far. You might not like Apple, but to suggest that Engadget has a bias in reporting Apple news, and should start ignoring Apple stories because a small group dislikes seeing it is tantamount to an ostrich sticking its head in the ground.
Wake up people. The reality is, this was a big year for Apple in the gadget world, and whining about how biased this list won't change it.
12,000 posts!
DAYUM!!! thats a post every 45 minutes, 24/7/365!
You guys rock!
According to google reader's Trends, engadget has made 865 posts in the last 30 days, and earlier this year it went over a thousand.
I don't think it's that people seem to like Apple, it's just that Apple had the most buzz.
Happy New Year! Hello 2008!
Very diversified top 5
wow. if it's not about apple, it's about xbox360
I personally wet my pants every time Engadget posts an Apple-related, um, post.
Yeah, so you guys owe me like two thousand dollars worth of laundry money.
Of course people like apple more... but that could easily change with a k-phone or tux-phone
Ouch.
Lots of gnashing teeth tonight, I'll bet.
after reading the story , i dont understand,how come every apple/ iphone related comment , gets lowest ranked !
15 out of 20 comments were related to apple !
15/20 is worse than gizmodo...they were 13/20. Still horrible when you had things like the Insignia Pilot, Creative ZEN, Cowon A3, Nokia N95, Archos x05 series, psp slim, and a lot more stuff coming out this year. And yes I like Insignia MP3 players :P.
If you like Insignia players you deserve to die.
Most of the apple related posts are fanboy things, like what Constable Odo said, "vote down all the non-apple people"
hello single-minded.
Almost each and every post is related to Microshaft or Apple. :-| I thought Engadget did reports on ALL technology, not just the two tyrants.
has anybody noticed that 12 of the 20 top posts are apple related?
its actually 15 , not 12.
i am also amazed to see that N95 is not on the list !
well, seeing as the n95 wasn't introduced this year,there weren't many breaking news alerts on the nokia except maybe the north American edition
No one except every single comment above yours.
Great job, Engadget!
Happy New Year to everyone too! ;)
It's not a surprise if you give complete big full coverage of every Apple event. What Microsoft event did Engadget blog a lot over, besides Xbox 360?
Not really hard to see why you guys draw Apple fans.
Not that it's a bad thing, but you really don't need to ask why Apple appears to be popular. Maybe it has to do with 'extra' coverage?
As I recall, Engadget covered every Microsoft event. Just as they covered every Apple one. The thing you seem to be missing is that this list represents the most well-read posts. For good or ill. Lots of people like Apple and they read the posts. Lots of people hate Apple and they read them too.
People just don't care as much about Microsoft, Nokia, and all of the other things that were covered here. And don't claim "excessive Apple coverage" on the part of Engadget, because all of those companies/products were covered. The fact that you can't remember means that you didn't care either.
@Samurai Jack:
Hate to be a downer, but I don't recall many Microsoft events that they put up.
Where's PDC? Mix07? That's just some of it.
Never saw much a mention. Couldn't even much info. searching on the site. If they didn't put a mention or anything about some events, how can they be 'covered' or 'well-read' posts?
The year went by SO FAST!
Apple is the Paris Hilton of Tech. Looks kinda good and people just can't stop talking about it but it's over-rated and dirty.
So true.
Ditto.
Amen
hahaha amazing post.
Touche'
And I hear OS X is easy too.
/Zing myself!