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AOL Reportedly Shutting Down TUAW Next Week in Larger Restructuring Move [Updated]
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Technologme.com ***USED*** to be good, until it closed down.
Perhaps space for a new Apple site now? Anyone?
Perhaps space for a new Apple site now? Anyone?
They have 5,000+ employees and brought in over $2 billion in revenue in 2013.. they are definitely still around.
Their AOL Sessions? (I think that's what it was called) was a pretty popular live music thing for a few years until they stopped. There are a bunch of services that have kept them going, but it's kind of funny that most of them are unrelated to the original purpose of the company
I usually just read MacRumors and MacBidouille. Unfortunately much of the news these days is iOS-related and much less Mac-related.
Aw, I've found useful info on TUAW before.
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Sadly, AIM is still the only thing that can take full advantage of the features in iChat and Messages. Jabber is supposed to, but it rarely works properly. So, believe it or not, my friends and I use AIM because SOMEHOW nobody has made anything better.
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Sadly, AIM is still the only thing that can take full advantage of the features in iChat and Messages. Jabber is supposed to, but it rarely works properly. So, believe it or not, my friends and I use AIM because SOMEHOW nobody has made anything better.
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Maybe, but the reporting on Appleinsider has become so ridiculously biased that it is difficult to take them seriously. Just read the recent report about "Why Samsung lost the thermonuclear war with Apple".
Let me interpret this for those who are befuddled by this corporate speak.
Number one: We are going to scale down our biggest asset: Our employees
Number two: Heisenberg may have said we can not have both growth and value at the same time. True, but we can get around that by scaling down both. No growth, No value. Problem solved.
Number three: Having done one and two, things are so simple that even a sixth grader can run AOL.
Yours Truly
Always On Lifesupport
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TUAW was never one of my read-first Apple news sites. AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is the devil. He's one of the most shameless purveyors of clickwhoring, and tries to institutionalize those practices with whatever sites AOL controls. And the writers generally get shafted, as those that actually get paid are given crumbs. AOL has become a fairly large and unwieldy content conglomerate, so it doesn't surprise me that they would try to fold TUAW's audience under the Engadget umbrella.
As for other sources of Apple news, my go-to site is John Gruber's daringfireball.net. Good content, spot-on analysis, refreshingly free from linkbaiting, and no comments. The last few days, he's been emptying out the Claim Chowder drawer, which is always good for a laugh.
loopinsight.com is Jim Dalrymple's site. Another good content aggregator, with some original Apple content and good coverage of music apps in particular.
asymco.com is a great site for industry analysis, with a lot of Apple coverage. Horace Deidu gets it right more often than not, and lays out his data in an easy-to-understand format. His approach is the exact opposite of Henry Blodget's temple-of-market-share sensationalism on Business Insider, and that's a good thing. Deidu seems to be doing a lot more consulting lately, so the site does not get updated as often as before.
Fortune removed Philip Elmer-DeWitt's Apple 2.0 blog a few months ago. But, you can still link to his latest articles using this link. PED has followed Apple longer than most bloggers, and has a good understanding of what makes the company tick, and good insights on what most analysts consistently get wrong about Apple.
Another site that focuses a lot on Apple is technightowl.com. I believe that the site mod used to work for Apple, and he has a good grasp on how Apple fits into the big picture. The site posts fewer but longer articles than other tech blogs. The site doesn't seem to get a lot of traffic, as most of the articles generate zero comments.
Other good sites include techpinions.com (good analysis, although a lot of the best content is now behind a paywall), ben-evans.com (very insightful articles, but the output has dropped off since Mr. Evans started a new consulting gig) and stratechery.com (Ben Thompson's latest article on what most analysts get wrong about Apple is a must read).
As for other sources of Apple news, my go-to site is John Gruber's daringfireball.net. Good content, spot-on analysis, refreshingly free from linkbaiting, and no comments. The last few days, he's been emptying out the Claim Chowder drawer, which is always good for a laugh.
loopinsight.com is Jim Dalrymple's site. Another good content aggregator, with some original Apple content and good coverage of music apps in particular.
asymco.com is a great site for industry analysis, with a lot of Apple coverage. Horace Deidu gets it right more often than not, and lays out his data in an easy-to-understand format. His approach is the exact opposite of Henry Blodget's temple-of-market-share sensationalism on Business Insider, and that's a good thing. Deidu seems to be doing a lot more consulting lately, so the site does not get updated as often as before.
Fortune removed Philip Elmer-DeWitt's Apple 2.0 blog a few months ago. But, you can still link to his latest articles using this link. PED has followed Apple longer than most bloggers, and has a good understanding of what makes the company tick, and good insights on what most analysts consistently get wrong about Apple.
Another site that focuses a lot on Apple is technightowl.com. I believe that the site mod used to work for Apple, and he has a good grasp on how Apple fits into the big picture. The site posts fewer but longer articles than other tech blogs. The site doesn't seem to get a lot of traffic, as most of the articles generate zero comments.
Other good sites include techpinions.com (good analysis, although a lot of the best content is now behind a paywall), ben-evans.com (very insightful articles, but the output has dropped off since Mr. Evans started a new consulting gig) and stratechery.com (Ben Thompson's latest article on what most analysts get wrong about Apple is a must read).
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That's only Daniel Eran Dilger. His over-the-top writing style is ready-made link bait. Even though he's obviously biased, his analysis ends up being right more often than not. Certainly, a lot more reality-based than the anti-Apple link bait that gets posted on Business Insider or Forbes ("contributor network").
Plus, the other articles on that site are more objective. And IMO, more objective than most of the front page articles on Macrumors, which tend to take the negative spin like a lot of the posters on this site.
Sad thing is... there are people (on both sides of the Apple divide) that will think you're being serious.
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Case in point.
I guess I was the only one who went there daily to check the deals on apps, right after checking out rumors here on MacRumors. They had a great daily list of lowered prices or newly gone free apps. I just bought a bluetooth shower speaker from their deals page today before I read about the shutdown.
I will miss TUAW.
I will miss TUAW.
I just googled him and was shocked he is an adult. What an incredible douchebag. How can one take an article serious that is titled "After Apple Inc. dodged the iPhone 6 Plus BendGate bullet, detractors wounded by ricochet"?
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He's a textbook case of someone who's their own worst enemy. Once you get past his many rhetorical excesses, he actually makes a lot of good points. Yeah, between his articles and his forum rebuttals (his screen name is Corrections), he just comes across as an a**wipe. Unfortunate because his articles on the timelines for Windows and OS X (on his own roughlydrafted.net site) are actually some of the best historical perspectives I've read.
The other contributors on AppleInsider are a lot more objective.
