I read this article a while back couldn't finish it. It just seems the writers' of The Verge's main point is that The Awl is great because it's read by the most

I read this article a while back couldn't finish it. It just seems the writers' of The Verge's main point is that The Awl is great because it's read by the most important people in media like ourselves. The Verge is the same tech reporting that I can find elsewhere with better graphic design and an editorial style that trys to look a bit further than 5 inches past their nose. In other words, The Verge has a low hurdle to jump over to be better than most tech writing. They are far from the best. Their coverage isn't very deep and their technologists aren't very insightful nor very good at predicting what's next. I find Ars Technica and Anandtech to be far better technically while not being nearly so smug and self-important as the Verge. Their greatest contribution so far has been their 10 minute wrapup of "All the things you need to know about tech conference X". That is merely the blog post of the youtube generation. Not insignificant but, nothing really groundbreaking nor the best of their industry. While I haven't read nearly as much of the Awl, I have stumbled upon a few of their articles over the years and nothing has struck me as profoundly better than the rest. Just filled with the thought that they are.