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Apple Blog iMore Shutting Down: 'One More Thing… Goodbye'
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Woah, I didn’t know AnandTech and others similar had gone down the drain… quite sad indeed.
Looks like the business model and pace of articles/visits would be better suited as a personal or small group of friends enthusiast blog posts maybe.
I do understand journalism in general going down after so much bait, distrust, misinformation, politicization, pandering and lecturing, ultimately alienating many readers in droves… however factual concise fun tech webpages, I would have expected them to stay basically forever.
They were to the point, amusing, full of stats and nerdy metrics.
Sad to see.
Looks like the business model and pace of articles/visits would be better suited as a personal or small group of friends enthusiast blog posts maybe.
I do understand journalism in general going down after so much bait, distrust, misinformation, politicization, pandering and lecturing, ultimately alienating many readers in droves… however factual concise fun tech webpages, I would have expected them to stay basically forever.
They were to the point, amusing, full of stats and nerdy metrics.
Sad to see.
What's sad is that Apple's own support forums used to be massively helpful. A billion times better than they are now. I dont recall when the big change came, but the revamp absolutely destroyed the forums. They became so useless that I never even consider them as a source of useful information or help. Previously, I read their forums casually even if I didnt need help because the people who frequented the forums were incredibly smart.
It was very clear that Apple purposely killed their own forums.
Bang on. Tim Cook should have been fired years and years ago.
I tried using iMore several times since around 2013 or so. It just never really had a lot of activity, surely was never one of the more active sites like this one. There were never more than a handful posts daily in the iPhone forum. I'm surprised it lasted this long.
IMO part of the current challenge with 'blogs' is that there's an over-supply of content in a world where there's less 'big' Apple news (and more incremental stuff that only needs so much analysis / dumbing down / speculation...etc).
Not gonna sledge iMore but I think their story explains that media companies with full-time employees (rather than 'bloggers just doing it for fun') have flooded the market. They need to make money to survive.
IMO there was an era where a lot of these sites were less corporate and more the side hobby of various tech geeks. There was more quality and less trying to be a journalist / run a media company. I feel as though a lot of these sites fall into the trap of creating content for the sake of content.
Look, we still have plentiful sources for Apple-related news: MacRumors, AppleInsider, plus multiple YouTube channels like Max Tech, Matt Talks Tech, Luke Miani, AppleTrack, FPT, Tailosive Tech, and several others. Not to mention what several posters on X regularly say starting with Mark Gurman. Sure, they're not 100% accurate but at least there's still plentiful news about Apple products.
TBH I think quite a bit of the other content is just rewriting whatever he says, these days.
The good ones directly quote what Mark Gurman says and puts their spin on his posts.
Read quite a few of their articles/reviews when the iPhone was just starting to become popular, iPhone 3G-4S era.
End of an era, though I had completely forgotten about them until this article.
End of an era, though I had completely forgotten about them until this article.
I used to read all of their Apple News stories on imore in the 2010s when I first started being an Apple fan, reading their support guides on my first Apple product the iPad mini 1st generation. I also used to check out their Apple Watch band replicas they listed on there. Since Serenity the writer went on to work at Apple in the mothership and all the greats left i stopped reading their articles because they did not look all that great after the best editors left. I also remembered that they also had articles outside Apple like when they discussed animal crossing new horizons and various Switch games during the pandemic.
After COVID I stopped reading imore and moved on to other Apple sources like Mac rumors and YouTube videos to keep up to date on everything Apple.
Future really wielding the axe this week. Print versions of TotalFilm, Play, All About Space, Total 911, and 3D World all just announced to be ending although they say they will live on, online. In the case of TotalFilm its articles may be published to GamesRadar+, but lets be honest without the income from printed sales we'll hardly be getting the equivalent quality writing and big-name interviews or behind the scenes stuff.
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They even will merge the imore newsletter to Tom’s Guide, their sister website which is all types of tech reviews. They will also be creating an Apple-specific newsletter to compensate for the website’s absence.
I just found out and I was shocked, but not surprised, I was an ambassador on the iMore and Crackberry forums for many years and I knew one day this time would come, I wish I knew how to get in touch with some of the folks I had made friends while being active on the forums for many years.
Being an old Crackberry guy and BBM user, they also finally shut down the consumer version of BBBM which I had been active on since 2006, times change, but I had made made many friends over the years on both forums and become an ambassador, but life rolls on.
Being an old Crackberry guy and BBM user, they also finally shut down the consumer version of BBBM which I had been active on since 2006, times change, but I had made made many friends over the years on both forums and become an ambassador, but life rolls on.