Yup. It takes a lot of training and a good bit of talent to ramble on like you're saying something important without really saying anything at all.
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AOL Reportedly Shutting Down TUAW Next Week in Larger Restructuring Move [Updated]
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Yup. It takes a lot of training and a good bit of talent to ramble on like you're saying something important without really saying anything at all.
This doesn't surprise me. I stopped visiting TUAW about 3 years ago maybe a bit longer than that even.
I used to be an avid reader of their website and the posts were very good but over time it turned into a really **** site.
See the thing that makes Mac Rumors different is you only post about 9 homepage articles per week. Sometimes less, sometimes more but I'd say the average is about 9 a week.
TUAW on the other hand somehow managed to post that many articles every day. There just isn't that much Apple news to be posted folks. They filled their homepage with what I'd consider guff.
Instead of "Apple does this" or "Apple rumour about that" it became "Some 3rd party accessory review" or "Some 3rd party app review".
I don't care what the latest game from EA on the iPhone is. I don't care about some 3rd party iPad case. I wanted Apple news not product launch information from Apple's ecosystem of 3rd party accessory makers.
And that's why I stopped visiting their site. I feel probably correctly that AOL pushed them to write more articles and in doing so it drove me and probably a lot of other people away to sites like MacRumors that only cover the important stuff with few exceptions.
I used to be an avid reader of their website and the posts were very good but over time it turned into a really **** site.
See the thing that makes Mac Rumors different is you only post about 9 homepage articles per week. Sometimes less, sometimes more but I'd say the average is about 9 a week.
TUAW on the other hand somehow managed to post that many articles every day. There just isn't that much Apple news to be posted folks. They filled their homepage with what I'd consider guff.
Instead of "Apple does this" or "Apple rumour about that" it became "Some 3rd party accessory review" or "Some 3rd party app review".
I don't care what the latest game from EA on the iPhone is. I don't care about some 3rd party iPad case. I wanted Apple news not product launch information from Apple's ecosystem of 3rd party accessory makers.
And that's why I stopped visiting their site. I feel probably correctly that AOL pushed them to write more articles and in doing so it drove me and probably a lot of other people away to sites like MacRumors that only cover the important stuff with few exceptions.
"AOL will soon be shutting down The Unofficial Apple Weblog, a long-running Apple blog better known as TUAW..."
I take it that "scaled" must be the latest corporate buzzword. Although with his using it several times like that, I'm not sure he knows what the word means.
I'm pretty sure it is a prerequisite for getting promoted past a certain level...
iMore too and iFans used to be better than it is now, seems to be more of an inactive forum than anything.
As others above have said, although I'm a decades long mac user, I've not visited TUAW in ages, though it used to be my go-to site after macrumors.
Joystiq though! Damn it! It's the only game site I visit. Although I visit engaget, I prefer not to mix my games and tech news.
Joystiq though! Damn it! It's the only game site I visit. Although I visit engaget, I prefer not to mix my games and tech news.
Believe it Or Not... I've actually found and idiot or 2 over the past couple years who's actually still paying for America Online. They claimed the email address was invaluable to them. I tried to explain to them for naught that you don't have to pay anymore, but they didn't believe me!
I have long since duplicated all my old AOL screen names to GMAIL or Yahoo, but I'll admit to still using a couple for email, but not paying for it.
As for Mac suport, AOL sucks. AOL Instant Messenger on the iPhone works ok, but what's the point if AOL doesn't work on Macs anymore, ANY VERSION? And to add insult to injury, last I checked, they're still offering Mac downloads that don't even work at ALL!
I still know several people that use the AOL chat rooms, but who wants to chat with people in their 50s and up all the time? LOL None of the chat rooms are Mac compatible even.
If it wasn't for AOL instant Messenger on the iPhone and a few people that use it, there would be no reason to have AOL anymore at all.
Someone needs to buy their few patents and AIM and close the whole thing up except the chat client.
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My parents are 78 and 80 and I finally told them,
"I'm Sorry, Mom & Dad. America Online has died. There's this thing called email and a thing called Facebook that will replace it though and it's better."
They are happy camper.
I have long since duplicated all my old AOL screen names to GMAIL or Yahoo, but I'll admit to still using a couple for email, but not paying for it.
As for Mac suport, AOL sucks. AOL Instant Messenger on the iPhone works ok, but what's the point if AOL doesn't work on Macs anymore, ANY VERSION? And to add insult to injury, last I checked, they're still offering Mac downloads that don't even work at ALL!
I still know several people that use the AOL chat rooms, but who wants to chat with people in their 50s and up all the time? LOL None of the chat rooms are Mac compatible even.
If it wasn't for AOL instant Messenger on the iPhone and a few people that use it, there would be no reason to have AOL anymore at all.
Someone needs to buy their few patents and AIM and close the whole thing up except the chat client.
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My parents are 78 and 80 and I finally told them,
"I'm Sorry, Mom & Dad. America Online has died. There's this thing called email and a thing called Facebook that will replace it though and it's better."
They are happy camper.
I just checked and the newest version of AOL Desktop is available and different then the one I had in Mavericks, but it still crashes on launch.
EPIC FAIL!
Btw, the older version I had never worked in Mavericks either, so AOL is 2 MacOS versions behind now.
As for AIM for Mac, it hasn't been updated since before Mavericks and doesn't even have the capabilities of the PowerPC version of AIM that still works on PowerPC machines.
The other thing is that AIM on Mac is not compatible with AOL or AIM on PC unless you're running similar versions. AOL has pretty much made a mess of everything and deserve every bad thing that happens to them.
EPIC FAIL!
Btw, the older version I had never worked in Mavericks either, so AOL is 2 MacOS versions behind now.
As for AIM for Mac, it hasn't been updated since before Mavericks and doesn't even have the capabilities of the PowerPC version of AIM that still works on PowerPC machines.
The other thing is that AIM on Mac is not compatible with AOL or AIM on PC unless you're running similar versions. AOL has pretty much made a mess of everything and deserve every bad thing that happens to them.
Are you kidding me? The ones that threadjack almost every thread into "Obama is a terrorist" and "white people rule"?
It should be noted that Yahoo Messenger no longer works on MACS either as of Yosemite and the company statement is that it will no longer be supported, so why would you want it on your iPhone then?
I really can't figure these 2 companies out.
Do they think dumb people with iPhones will download their chat/email clients, then realize they don't work on their Mac and still use them??? LOL
I really can't figure these 2 companies out.
Do they think dumb people with iPhones will download their chat/email clients, then realize they don't work on their Mac and still use them??? LOL
Are you kidding me? The ones that threadjack almost every thread into "Obama is a terrorist" and "white people rule"?
I wasn't talking about the forum posts, I was talking about the articles on the front page. So, no I'm not kidding you or anyone else.
Oh well ... head into the forums. Where macbook pro logic board failure somehow gets blamed on Obama and black people.
+1 for ATAT and CARS
Yeah, +1 that, one of the first really great commentary sites. A bit of a mystery, one day it just stopped. No explanation, no nothing. He just quit doing it. Too bad, I haven't read any really great commentary since then until Daring Fireball.
Also, CARS: Crazy Apple Rumors Site was pretty funny for a while.
Yeah, +1 that, one of the first really great commentary sites. A bit of a mystery, one day it just stopped. No explanation, no nothing. He just quit doing it. Too bad, I haven't read any really great commentary since then until Daring Fireball.
Also, CARS: Crazy Apple Rumors Site was pretty funny for a while.
I don't find it biased at all.
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Daniel is a pleasure to read, and after the provoking style there always be a correct analysis of the market.
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Just read that article, you'll find many good points.
True dat. It looks like some people who hooked up with AOL in the 1990s just can't let go.
I let go of AOL 15 years ago when I upgraded to broadband from dial-up. At first I missed hearing "You got mail" and the chat rooms, but I moved on.
Scaling from a corp standpoint means, "We are laying off people until we get to a point where we can liquidate the company and make a bit of profit"
MacRumors instill my first news site I pull up each morning. (I sell Apple products, so it's very relevant to my job), but I love Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Parislemon.com. We should also take into account that reporting Apple news is no longer a cult thing. It's extremely trendy among techies, younger folks, business types due to the stocks, and political types due to everything Apple has become. Every single news site on the net reports news about Apple.
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A quick flick through bookmarks in the tuaw.com domain, this from 2011 was memorable:
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me fine-tune session window restores | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
so, at least some of the site content is in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
He probably is.
I'm Spartacus.
I'm Spartacus!
A quick flick through bookmarks in the tuaw.com domain, this from 2011 was memorable:
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me fine-tune session window restores | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
so, at least some of the site content is in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
He probably is.
I'm Spartacus.
I'm Spartacus!
