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Apple Hires Longtime Technology Journalist Anand Lal Shimpi
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He didn't ask for proof, Sherlock, he asked for evidence. If you're going to suggest that Anand is the type of journalist who would accept a payoff to keep quiet, or that Apple is paying off journalists, then you better have some evidence to back up your outrageous suggestions.
Here's a simpler explanation: Apple makes technically laudable products and Anand has the technical expertise to recognize that.
Why must people tear down someone like Anand, suggesting that Apple's hiring of him was part of some payola scheme rather than being based on Anand's keen technical insight and deep knowledge?
I wouldn't say he's being torn down, it's just that people are using logic to make a conclusion that his very pro apple stances and articles might have lead to him getting a job with apple. It's pretty straightforward and makes a lot of sense, actually.
I have no problem with it. Good for him, I suppose.
What's next? Apple hiring John Siracusa?
If so, let it be after his OSX Yosemite review.
I'm thrilled, have followed Anand since the late 90's when I downloaded postage stamp sized videos on dial up of his reviews, and as an Apple stockholder I'm double thrilled.
They didn't hire him to hush him up. They hired him because he's one of the best, and he's been a big fan of Apple for a decade.
It's funny as hell reading the comments on AT over this, and sad at the same time.
They didn't hire him to hush him up. They hired him because he's one of the best, and he's been a big fan of Apple for a decade.
It's funny as hell reading the comments on AT over this, and sad at the same time.
Reviews always went out of the way to justify something or smooth over whatever issue there was with apple, a lot less for others.
But its sad as his reviews were very indept an I doubt antone is going to do that from now on.
This is like hiring a movie critic as a producer. Apple hasn't made much sense the last years.
There's nothing wrong with that. You always need criticism.
If you don't have [or refuse to listen to] any, you end up with the Transformers moves...
Was a smart fellow call Balmer who forced him out, too.
Well, I would, as it's suggesting that he was hired as some kind of cheerleader rather than the technical expert that he's shown himself to be. It's like suggesting that a woman was hired because she was flirtatious rather than qualified.
No, it doesn't make a lot of sense for Apple to hire, and thus silence, an independent journalist who has a history of writing articles favorable to Apple.
He doesn't have 'pro-Apple stances.' He is in favor of very good technical products and Apple makes such products.
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No, that is untrue. His reviews were unbiased and he showed no favoritism. Apple products were reviewed well because they are consistently among the best in class.
So all that sucking up to Apple all these years has finally paid off..
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He was actually doing that earlier clandestinely.. Now he will do it openly. I hope Anandtech gets out of this guys clutches and starts objective reporting atleast now since this guy has left the publication. Looks like it will be adistant dream.
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He was actually doing that earlier clandestinely.. Now he will do it openly. I hope Anandtech gets out of this guys clutches and starts objective reporting atleast now since this guy has left the publication. Looks like it will be adistant dream.
They are among the best in class but even they have flaws or downsides and somehow those always got missed or glossed over.
Samsung has its own in house chip called Exynos. Samsung used in all their major product. They just using Snapdragon on their US variants.
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Tell me where is the innovations is shine iOS 5? New flat UI with ugly icons? Yes I still cannot get over with the ugly icons...
But.... I thought we were only gonna hire women because we need to be more diverse and stuff...???? What of our diversity Apple? WHAT OF OUR DIVERSITYYYYYYYY?!?!?!
Right now they are hiring bearded bald people.
Men are unfortunately overrepresented in this group.
So true and so sad at the same time. No other review site was so thorough than his. If there was a one letter change in a cpu part number he would tell you exactly what it meant. I only hope he decided to quit Anand before Apple approached him and that he was not taken from the entire tech community with Apple's bankroll.
Exynos uses ARM arhitecture, it is a combination of various A8, A9, A15 or A7 cores.
Apple (Swift, Cyclone) and Qualcomm (Scorpion, Krait) are custom cores based only on the ARM instruction set, not their "Asomething" arhitectures.
Every single tech news source is very nice for Apple because Apple only makes very nice products. It's very simple.
Samsung spends 10x more than Apple on advertising. Why aren't people like Anand always very nice for them? Well, for starting things up they cheated on benchmarks, and they just do not make very nice products.
Well it looks like I'll have to find a new site to get in-depth reviews from...
For the last year, by his own words, most of Anand's co-authored reviews were 90% someone else. I think AT will continue to be a great resource for the foreseeable future.
Remember when galaxy s3 users thought that they were going to see kitkat? The qualcomm version got it. The exynos didn't. lol Exynos sucks for a variaty of reasons, being a "cmd + c" "cmd + v" of A7 and A15 designs and lack of support are 2 of them.
Yes, iOS isn't innovative because of the icons.
Wow... I didn't see this coming yet at the same time I am not surprised. Anand has used his expertise in analyzing apple in a way that puts other tech review sites to shame. I would not be surprised If he was hired as PR head at apple or as a consultant for future product development.
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