It's
iPad time, people, and that means we'll be doing what we do and covering the hell out of Apple's new tablet for the next few days. But we'll obviously have other stuff going on as well, and if you just can't bear another post about this infuriating giant iPod touch mixed in with your daily dose of gadget news, we're here for you -- just hit
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/Apple, and you'll see a completely magic- and revolution-free Engadget. It works for RSS too:
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/Apple/rss.xml is your ticket to an iPad-free feed reader. You can also exclude anything else you want, so if you really hate the ASUS Eee PC 1201PN you can just hit
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/1201PN and express your unique brand of misanthropic antipathy and ill-adjustedness quietly to yourself in the comfort of your home or workplace. We will accept your silent refusal to comment on iPad posts as agreement to these terms and conditions, and reserve the right to straight jack trolls in the face with a sick nasty bannination.
Read - Engadget without Apple news
Subscribe - Engadget feed without Apple news
posted April 2nd 2010 4:34PM
@Anatidae There's an easy way to do that.
DON'T CLICK ON THE ARTICLE!
I love the fact that they have to remind people of this. Hummmmm
@schmidt1985
Memories
@schmidt1985
Oh hai!
@schmidt1985 I wish they would post stats for how many people actually use this link...
@eko2 I can tell you that from the looks of it, not very many.
@schmidt1985
Ya, I'm tired of this 'Exclude' news. Is there a link to exclude Exclude News?
@eko2
I would love to use it but the one time I do apple would give out free computers or something. *SLAP* wake up this will never happen
@shogunmaster You ask. We answer (for free Nilay, uhem.)
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/exclude
@shogunmaster http://www.engadget.com/exclude/exclude seems to work :)
@shogunmaster
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/exclude
@shogunmaster You can exclude anything that is tagged so you can exclude the exclude tag
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/exclude
@schmidt1985
What's the bet the trolling won't stop?
Nilay gotta say, pretty hilarious read @ the article. Far better than the arrogance Josh showed when he posted this during The Great Comment Battle of 2010.
@DirtyVegas
i agree 100% trolling will never, NEVER stop its the internet. I just try to not let it bother me anymore.
@schmidt1985 ... some people just LOVE to complain & be d-bags & whine all day ... I don't see those people using this link.
Why bother?
Why Apple? Exclude only iPad. People here are objective. Sometimes I love Apple, sometimes not. I love iPhone HD, but no to iPad. It's simple. This not kinda brand-bashing. It is just that iPad is a very unconvincing product for some.
@schmidt1985
http://www.engadget.com/exclude/LubeExpensiveAppsAndBendingOver
@schmidt1985
I am so happy that I'll no longer see any iHaters and iNaysayers comments on Apple articles as long as they "exclude Apple". They were all getting their panties in a twist merely because the iPad will become the first tablet to ever win consumers hearts and the poor geeks won't be the only ones to be empowered with technology.
@schmidt1985
Way to cave into pressure Engadget.
This is absolutely ridiculous. You guys are DOING YOUR JOB. Why is it that you feel you need to kowtow to these TROLLS/HATERS.
Tell them to GO TO ANOTHER FREAKING WEBSITE if they don't like Engadget.
It's that simple. You're not doing anything WRONG. Why should you act like you've committed some crime and are guilty of some heinous offense? When it's the Apple HATERS who have been viciously attacking your integrity and your website?
Grow a backbone Engadget PLEASE and tell these holier than thou idiots to GO SOMEPLACE ELSE for their tech news if they don't like Engadget.
ITS REALLY THAT SIMPLE.
@masochist WOW, now people want their own engadget site tailored just for them. Tell us what more you want and maybe they'll design a special site just for you.
@TheLondonExchange Hello fanboy :D
@masochist
Whoa, where did you get an iPhone HD from! You've managed to out scoop Engadget!
@shogunmaster
Yo dawg! We heard you like excluding, so we installed exclude in your exclude so you can exclude while you exclude!
@TheLondonExchange We didn't actually cave to any pressure. It's something you can do with any tag on the website. We just wanted to let people know that they can do it so they don't have to waste their precious time composing biting comments for each Apple post!
@schmidt1985 you guys are morons. Some people are rational in this world and so they like apple products. Not becase they are "dumbed down" but because of the simplicity. Apple is IN MY OPINION the best. And downrank me all you want you stupid foolish morons but apple is great. And engadget is doing their job as are people reading these because they like apple. Get a life. You are the trolls you apple haters.
@TheLondonExchange
I have to agree with London. Just start banning them, Engadget. You're starting to sound like a mother who's afraid to discipline her child:
"I'm warning you…"
@Bosco :
Yo dawg, I heard you like exclusion, so I excluded yo~
Right. Sorry.
@schmidt1985
Instead of making people have to exclude Apple, why not give Apple it's own HUB (like the Mobile, HD pages).
The reason why Apple doesn't fit under the regular Engadget umbrellas is because the amount of posts they get is excessive. They get posts for adapters, they get posts for rumors, they get posts for rumors of the Apple site going down, they get more posts when a new device comes out than any other gadget. If it's really that important to post all this stuff, then give them their own Engadget/Apple.
This will allow for more balance on the normal Engadget page. :)
@MosesusedaniPad
comments like that are just as annoying as the ihater trolls. Nobody enjoys the apple butt kissing and over glorification either!
@schmidt1985
IDK about Y'all but any tech news is good news for me. Yup, even bad tech news.
@jaleman
I think jaleman may actually have a VERY GOOD idea regarding Apple having their own little (cough cough yeah right) section on Engadget like they have for mobile and HD. A great idea but one that will only work if an editor that isn't in love with Steve Jobs is put in charge of deciding what posts actually make it onto the main site.
I'm sure I've pissed off a few Apple fanatics with some of my posts in the past and I actually believe such a move would help me to not feel the urge to always smack others in the face with a bit of reality every time a new Apple post appears.
@schmidt1985 Engadget is starting to remind me of the badger song, but with iPads.
iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, MA-GI-CAL snake snaaake snaaake o-ooo it's a snake, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad, iPad.
i dont like so many news of the ipad...
but i love to read the comments.
@jaleman
Agreed. They already started posting every new iPass app.
@masochist
For some? This device is non-convincing. Next..
@masochist
"People here are objective."
Haha, that's a good one. Have you never read the comments section before? I would say they are extremely subjective.
@schmidt1985 um, i was getting really into the ipad news until they started being all "ipad has worst specs than imagined" ipad will be ideal next release and such... i mean jeeze.
@jaleman "Instead of making people have to exclude Apple, why not give Apple it's own HUB (like the Mobile, HD pages).
The reason why Apple doesn't fit under the regular Engadget umbrellas is because the amount of posts they get is excessive...."
Well, why do you think there are so many posts? I would guess because there a lot of readers who want to read about Apple. Instead of making a HUB (which will be problematic), why just people don't just scroll down and not read the article? It is not like it is an advertisement during your TV show, that you are stuck with. Just skip it.
@TheLondonExchange
hmm last time i looked at the poll of 'will you get an ipad' around 54% of people werent going to and only about 28% of people were going to
is it fair that 54% of people have to put up with the same piece of 'news' (seriously, some guy going on a TV show with his Ipad ISNT news, let alone worthy of 2 'news' articles) for that 28%?
youd probably say yes, because youre getting one (well, probably) but i want to learn about many different gadgets, for example, the joojoo, they had it 2 days ago, yet have been waiting around for the ipad.
can you see why people hate it?
@Atkins
The simple reason that Engadget posts so many Apple stories is market demand. It lives off ads and page-views. While many Engadget readers may not be so interested in all-things-Apple, clearly there is a substantial number of people who are (and likely don't post because of a vociferous minority of anti-Apple or anti-Microsoft posters who wil slam them down). If Apple news was hived off into a separate mini-site, the main Engadget page would likely lose significant revenue, as well as attention and editors. If there is a market for "any gadget but Apple", someone will create it.
I want to read about all gadgets and I don't want some arbitrary filtering or focus. Give me Windows Phone 7, Courier, WebOS, Android, iPad, even JooJoo. Potentially great stuff can come from anywhere, including Apple. What is so hard to understand about the concept of scrolling? Just don't tell Engadget what is good for their business. They appear to be on top of that.
@schmidt1985 Dang I hate exclude topic stories.. Why did you guys make me read and comment on this??!! I hate this site and Im never coming back!!!!
@schmidt1985 the mockery and sarcastic tone in these "we're here for you" articles is bullshit. I don't want to be biased toward any editors on Engadget, but Nilay is quite an ass.
@schmidt1985
Where's the PC Troll Free subscribe link? Hopefully the trolls will subscribe to the Apple free version and stop crapping on the Apple article comments. But I doubt the nature of a troll can be altered.
So when the Engadget iPad app comes out, if we exclude Apple, do we get a break on the $4.99 weekly subscription?
@Bosco I will answer this question, but it will cost you $17.99 plus fees.
@Nilay Patel I'm in a consuming mood today. Just shelled out $259.48 for a year of Engadget on iPad. Your fee doesn't phase me.
@Nilay Patel
will engadget also be taking 5 months to produce an iPad application?
or because its apple, you guys created one before the iPad was even released.
it really should not have taken you 5 months to create a blackberry 5.0 app
PS we only complain because we care.
@apU from what I heard on one of the podcasts that the blackberry app was the hardest to make along with android. The programmers had to get by the many different resolutions. Apple has one for the iPhone that is why it was a lot simpler to make.
@apU: same issues with the android version. took forever to come out, low-res icon, blurry buttons on the pop-up menu, when you slide the keyboard open on the droid it has to reload the whole page (and brings you back to the top of the comments if you're doing it to make a comment of your own), and it says powered by sprint. they did it so that we have a nasty looking, almost unfinished appon android just to further rub in what ifans they really are (as if it wasn't painfully obvious).
why did the iphone version have so much more polish, nearly no bugs, and come out soooo much sooner? (I had an iphone when that app came out, so I'm not just talking out of my rear-end).