| ▲ | GeekyBear 3 hours ago | |
> publishing articles that are 90% press material from some company and most of the times seems to have very little technical knowledge. Unfortunately, this is my impression as well. I really miss Anandtech's reporting, especially their deep dives and performance testing for new core designs. | ||
| ▲ | zdw 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
The main problem with technology coverage is you have one of 3 types of writers in the space: 1. Prosumer/enthusiasts who are somewhat technical, but mostly excitement 2. People who have professional level skills and also enjoy writing about it 3. Companies who write things because they sell things A lot of sites are in category 1 - mostly excitement/enthusiasm, and feels. Anandtech, TechReport, and to some extent Arstechnica (specially John Siracusa's OS X reviews) are the rare category 2. Category 3 are things like the Puget Systems blog where they benchmark hardware, but also sell it, and it functions more as a buyer information. The problem is that category 2 is that they can fairly easily get jobs in industry that pay way more than writing for a website. I'd imagine that when Anand joined Apple, this was likely the case, and if so that makes total sense. | ||