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It's interesting - I probably spend 2+ hours a day, reading Apple/Tech news, and reading all the various links, listening to a bunch of the podcasts. Some site

It's interesting - I probably spend 2+ hours a day, reading Apple/Tech news, and reading all the various links, listening to a bunch of the podcasts. Some sites just keep coming up over and over - HN, macrumors, 9to5mac, imore.com, macworld.com - obviously the standard daringfireball.net, recode, theverge, bloomberg, wsj and NYT.com, some of the new ones like sixcolors.com, and the podcasts (ATP.fm, TheTalkShow), asymco (though less posting recently) In particular, stratechery.com has been knocking it out of the park in the last year. Even though I don't visit it, I'm at least peripherally aware of theloop, information, etc... And usually hear a reference to sites like them every month or so. - But I'm struggling to remember, if even once in the last 5 years of that 2+ hours a day, I came across a story from macNN. Obviously this is an anecdote, but, 5+ years at 2 (or more) hours a day - you'd think I'd recall something from the site - but nothing comes to mind...

Terretta 10y ago
Hmm, they're generally included in that roster, odd you wouldn't have bumped into them. For instance: http://apple.originalsignal.com http://apple.originalsignal.com
orbitur 10y ago
I used spend close to 2 hours a day hunting for Apple news back when I was in school, from the mid-00s to 2012ish, and I hit most of the sites you're talking about. I still listen to the Talk Show and ATP, and I follow Jason Snell on Twitter. But I also have never heard of this website.
ralfd 10y ago
Same. I think the issue is lack of personality and blandness. I clicked through some MacNN articles and they all had the anonymous byline "MacNN staff". In comparison the successful Apple blogs are done by driven and opinionated individuals (Jason Snell, John Gruber, Siracusa, Marco Arment, Ben Thompson) which you get familiar with over the years and reading/listening to them over time is like talking sports with your pals. MacRumors has Arnold Kim, 9to5mac had Mark Gurman etc I don't even read iMore often, I but still know that Rene Ritchie and Serenity Caldwell are working there. MacNN? I have a blank.

Terretta 10y ago

Hmm, they're generally included in that roster, odd you wouldn't have bumped into them. For instance: http://apple.originalsignal.com http://apple.originalsignal.com

orbitur 10y ago

I used spend close to 2 hours a day hunting for Apple news back when I was in school, from the mid-00s to 2012ish, and I hit most of the sites you're talking about. I still listen to the Talk Show and ATP, and I follow Jason Snell on Twitter. But I also have never heard of this website.

ralfd 10y ago

Same. I think the issue is lack of personality and blandness. I clicked through some MacNN articles and they all had the anonymous byline "MacNN staff". In comparison the successful Apple blogs are done by driven and opinionated individuals (Jason Snell, John Gruber, Siracusa, Marco Arment, Ben Thompson) which you get familiar with over the years and reading/listening to them over time is like talking sports with your pals. MacRumors has Arnold Kim, 9to5mac had Mark Gurman etc I don't even read iMore often, I but still know that Rene Ritchie and Serenity Caldwell are working there. MacNN? I have a blank.