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Toooo much iPHONE!
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it's a fair enough point. The MR communitity is growing with most new visitors coming because of either the iPhone or iPod so it's good that there are rumors for them, as for macs, it's kinda obivous rumors that are comming thru, or new ideas that seem far too ahead of time even for apple, so the get shot down by us.
Let's see:
over 36,890 threads and over 391,416 posts in iPhone forums
over 259,826 threads and over 2,207,863 posts on Macs and everything else.
Yep, us Mac users are left out! LOL
I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you were saying, I'm talking on my iPhone.
I guess the dozens of other non-iPhone forums are invisible in your browser?
I am sick of the iPhone stuff as well..
But what is new about Mac Pro? the same crap over and over again? no even comments about not having blu ray drives.
iPhone is actually the only thing evolving in Apple, the rest is about actually Intel comming with a new processor every week.
The rumors in general are not the same any more.
But what is new about Mac Pro? the same crap over and over again? no even comments about not having blu ray drives.
iPhone is actually the only thing evolving in Apple, the rest is about actually Intel comming with a new processor every week.
The rumors in general are not the same any more.
Do you honestly believe that Mac content is being unreported because of the iPhone content?
You joined the forum in November 2006, so I'll assume that was a "good month" for Mac rumors/news from your perspective. It was before the iPhone was released.
Then:
Nov 2006: 1st 20 days. 36 front page posts. 20 were at least loosely Mac related
Now:
Aug 2008: 1st 20 days. 54 front page posts. 23 were at least loosely Mac related
There is more non-Mac content now, but the absolute amount of Mac content is not reduced. This month has more Mac content then the month you joined. The percentage is smaller, of course, but that's because Apple is doing more non-Mac stuff.
And in a couple of years someone will be asking "should we change the name of this site to <new apple product>rumors".
See this post from Jan 21, 2004:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/56653/
arn
You joined the forum in November 2006, so I'll assume that was a "good month" for Mac rumors/news from your perspective. It was before the iPhone was released.
Then:
Nov 2006: 1st 20 days. 36 front page posts. 20 were at least loosely Mac related
Now:
Aug 2008: 1st 20 days. 54 front page posts. 23 were at least loosely Mac related
There is more non-Mac content now, but the absolute amount of Mac content is not reduced. This month has more Mac content then the month you joined. The percentage is smaller, of course, but that's because Apple is doing more non-Mac stuff.
And in a couple of years someone will be asking "should we change the name of this site to <new apple product>rumors".
See this post from Jan 21, 2004:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/56653/
arn
Should "complaining" be renamed "kryszrich-ing"?
Sorry. Hurting, not helping.
Ridiculous is as ridiculous does.
Arn has already said all that needs to be said.
Sorry. Hurting, not helping.
Ridiculous is as ridiculous does.
Arn has already said all that needs to be said.
See also the FAQ entry:
You mean this has come up before??
Yeah, but it's only come up about once every ten minutes, so people generally haven't noticed.
Despite having no problems with how the news and rumours are reported on the front page, I'd quite like the ability for a little customisation - say three little checkboxes to exclude content you don't feel relevant to yourself. (Mac, iPod, and iPhone, for example). Sometimes I'm just totally disinterested in reading Mac articles, and sometimes I don't want to hear about the iPhone.
But the OP was questioning the homepage. That's not the forum.
Well said.
But the OP was questioning the homepage. That's not the forum.
Wait... there is a NEWS page at MacRumors too!
No way! That is so cool!
Woof, Woof Dawg
Nice link.
"Your PC might be infected....".
Damn, I hate that thing!!!!
On topic, I'm sure, but don't really know, when you drop that much change on a "phone", you may require constant reinforcement.
Plain and simple.. iPhone is hot. We are still hearing about other items, but right now the iPhone is it.
I agree that the iPhone exposure level is obscene here - but it's the same everywhere...the iPhone is the latest gadget and everyone wants to talk about it.
...But nobody is making anyone read the iPhone threads. Just ignore them if you don't care about them. Like me.
...But nobody is making anyone read the iPhone threads. Just ignore them if you don't care about them. Like me.
