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I felt the same way about his iPad 2 coverage. Can't comment too much about him before then though since I didn't follow him.
Hmmmm....from the Techcrunch review: "On the iPad Im testing out, I have three pages of apps, a few hundred photos, one HD movie, and one music album. Its really not that much stuff, but it takes up over 20 GB of storage. The apps alone are over 10 GB of that."
Josh's last comparison of the iPad 2 vs a Windows 8 tablet soured me. Saying the four finger gestures hard to do. Please. The iPad is less intuitive. Please.
You didn't try to use the Verge during the last keynote did you? 10 to 15 Minutes behind ours such as Engadget.
I prefer Walt Mossbergs, and AnadTech reviews I think they give the best reviews for both types of consumers. The average consumer and the geek.
This is my thoughts on The Verge and if you disagree that is fine. I am sharing my experiences.
good lord.
Loved the first posters' comment on that page:
"My God...its full of pixels."
Let me guess... you think Santorum is perfectly sane.
Those other reviews were horrible compared to the time and effort good ole Josh put into his real, thought out, honest review.
I feel very, very sorry for those that ordered the 16GB units and didn't think through the RAMifications of a Retina display.
I don't really like Josh. The gesture thing bugs me along with other observations he's made. He also made two of the worst claims for the iPad 2 (retina display) and iPad 3 (iPad HD). The Verge is so well done though. The site, reviews, etc. Everything is top notch and I can't say the writers are bias, just disagreeable in some regards.
But I really don't like Walt Mossberg. Of all of the reviews I've read, he's the most robotic. Nothing about the experience, just reading specs. Not pictures, just Apple's pictures from their site. No video, just video of him and Apple's site videos. I like AnandTech for random benchmark and really really technical observations but I could read them every day. I'll tune in every now and then for something like their iPad 2 GPU article.
My favorites are John Gruber and Jim Dalrymple. They're normal human beings and their writing reflects that.
I'm getting a bit too excited... But god that display is amazing! 
So excited for Friday, probably the most excited I've been about and apple product!
I always have a good laugh at the android fanboys in denial that their tablet is crap in comparison.
So excited for Friday, probably the most excited I've been about and apple product!I always have a good laugh at the android fanboys in denial that their tablet is crap in comparison.
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Sweet. I think I will be quite happy with my iPad 2 & 3 combo. #verge 4GLTE is going to rock! Glad I got it.
Walt Mossberg is in Apple's pocket. That's the only thing that explains why his reviews are short and dull and why he keeps getting invited to all the Apple events. Too bad too because I generally like AllThingsD.
Review wise, my personal favorite is John Siracusa (of Ars). Reading his technical articles can be tedious but he rarely misses anything. I learned about his human side from listening to his Hypercritical podcast on 5by5. It's hilarious yet very informative. The rants he gives are epic and by the time you're done listening to a topic you will understand how an intricate thing, like file systems, work. He's a very good lecturer.
I find it interesting the iPad3 loading a web page almost a full second faster than the iPad2.. Unless the optimization is from 5.1 and their iPad2 wasn't on 5.1 yet.
Dalrymple is okay but Gruber seems to have such a closed minded agenda that I quit reading because he seems incapable of writing anything positive about a non-Apple product without interjecting a few jabs for no reason. Plus, there's just something untrustworthy about an opinion site that doesn't allow comments.
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Not everyone loads up their iPad the same. I've been rocking 16GB on both my iPhone and iPad for a couple years now without issue.
Worst reviews ever. I can learn more from Apple's website since these reviews are mostly carbon copies of it. Where is the testing and real world performance? Its their job to test the iPad and report the results yet these journalists are too lazy to do their jobs with most saying they would let someone else report the battery run down and performance results. I can't believe these hacks get paid for this "reporting".
Pretty sure we can expect good reviews from ars and anandtech, no first day rush from them.