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Apple Blog iMore Shutting Down: 'One More Thing… Goodbye'

Sad. Whenever a parent or relative had an Apple question, I knew iMore would have the most succinct, friendly-reading article that I could just zap a link to.

MacRumors is for hyper-nerds, that's no good for grandpa.

Apple's own forum architecture is worthless, their online documents… well honestly I've never seen the consumer-facing stuff, but the dev stuff is wretched so I'm not optimistic. Not sure what fills the void.
 
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One of the first tech podcasts I listened too was the Imore Show with Rene Ritche and a female host (Forgot her name). This was probably more than 10 years ago now.

Evidently this same company owns Android Central and I have to say I looked at their forums the other day and they are not active at all. I signed up but probably won't use it. I was just looking for another Android forum site that wasn't Reddit and I feel like I'm still looking.
 
Good.

First, when they rebranded to iMore I was annoyed, but it's just a name so I moved on.

But then, they did a drastic redesign of the site that made it unusable and I stopped going regularly. I would visit once in a long while.

And then, they did another smaller redesign and it was still bad.

I used to visit multiple times every day. For me, their bad redesign ruined it. The site was fine and usable before that, and the articles were fine.
 
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loopy123 said:
I predict the next well known Apple site to go dark will be AppleInsider. Their content has gone downhill lately and they have been resorting to click-bait headlines. Their reviews are becoming "spec-battles" as it is clear they do not actually have hardware in their hands.
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AI is little more than a rag. What passes for "journalism" over there is laughable at best. They have one writer in their employ who seemingly gets paid by the word, hence his Beowulf-esqe screeds, under the guise of "editorials". He also frequently sock-puppets under multiple noms de plume and cites previous articles he's written as "evidence" to back up his current editorial.
 
Crazy, they’ve been around forever it seems, MacRumors is next as all Apple related tech sites are going under since Apple is going bankrupt soon.
 
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I never read iMore, I always kinda viewed them in the batch of also-ran blogs back in the early days of the Apple renaissance. For me, I'd rather visit this site, the MacUser blog over on Macworld, or iPodlounge Seeing a lot of these sites decay or straight-up shut down makes me feel very old.
 
I only read MacRumors and 9to5Mac. With a little MacWorld sprinkled in. No need for anything else.
 
"non-core or low- or no-growth"

No mention that they were losing money. Just sounds like the folks up top wanting more money for themselves. (Notice they'll keep the archive up to still get ad revenue but without staff costs for new content...)

Between this and TouchArcade we are seeing the unfortunate effects of what the Web has become. The Web had so much potential twenty years ago...

Humanity seems to have issues keeping nice things.

-R
 
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I used to be an avid reader and would participate in the forums heavily, but just stopped. I’d check in from time to time and it just wasn’t that great after Rene and few others left. That’s not a knock on the current crew, but it just felt different with writing styles and content.
 
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Good riddance. That was a horribly-managed site, each page was so full of ads, trackers, and dickbars you couldn't even use it without a content blocker. Let this be a lesson to every website that thinks injecting viewer-disrespecting junk into your site will increase your profits long-term.
 
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That’s so sad. I enjoyed a lot of their content. It makes me nervous that the same company owns Tom’s Guide, because that’s one of my favorite review sites… 🙁
 
coffeemilktea said:
I think the real culprit was less "AI and search discovery," and more that the articles felt weirdly short and bland, the website wasn't particularly pleasant to look at, and hardly anyone ever commented on anything that got posted.

Whatever faults MacRumors may or may not have, at least it's actually enjoyable to read, and the engagement here is crazy high. 👍
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I wanted to like iMore, even had it in my feel reader until a year or so ago, but their site became unreadable. Way too much junk on the page.

Way too much bad behavior paying off, too little reward for actual journalism anymore.
 
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scorpio vega said:
How is windowscentral still around?

I used to use they regularly when I used windows phone but that was literally 80 percent of the reason why anyone was there.

Windows phone has been gone almost a decade and all they post is about windows and depressing Xbox new and their forums are dead.
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Depressing Windows and Xbox and Azure and 365 is what Microsoft is now. It's not ever going away, they make far far too much money from far too many large industries for that. But it is going to be boring and depressing news forever.
 
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Doesn't Macworld mag alum Jason Snell write for iMore too? If so, surprised he wasn't mentioned. He's been on the beat for years.
 
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