Marco's claim is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how anyone but one of the most rabid Apple fanbois could even make such a claim, or expect from them to mention that other products look similar to Apple's products in every story. Should they mention it when they are 100% clones? When it's 90% similar? 70%? 50%? What would make Marco happy? Maybe he'd like to send the same kind of criticism to sites covering new TV's or fridges.
As for Gruber's claim, that might not be 100% false. I've noticed that after being heavily criticized by a minority of their readers who are very active and Microsoft fans, about "being too hard on Microsoft/Nokia", TheVerge usually tries to "make up for it", by compensating with other positives or writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP. They even seem to have one full time writer that only writes about these sort of stories lately (Tom Warren).
Whether these moves are good or bad, that's for anyone to judge. I just think they are a little too reactionary, and I'm not particularly fond of it. I think they'd be better off if they did what they thought it's best, although listening to some feedback I guess can't hurt.
And all that being said, I think TheVerge is one of the more "objective" and impartial tech news sites around, and I think they generally do their best to keep it that way, which is something I like about them.
Well I mean they're writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP because the phones were announced and are eventually going to be released soon. And I'm guessing they give one full-time writer one specific topic so they have a writer who actually follows along with what's going on with the subject.
I mean they were one of the bigger news sites to come out and accuse Nokia of doctoring their OIS videos (albeit they also got an exclusive article afterwards showing how well the OIS photos looked compared to other phones). I don't think either Gruber or Marco's accusations hold much weight.
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Marco's claim is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know how anyone but one of the most rabid Apple fanbois could even make such a claim, or expect from them to mention that other products look similar to Apple's products in every story. Should they mention it when they are 100% clones? When it's 90% similar? 70%? 50%? What would make Marco happy? Maybe he'd like to send the same kind of criticism to sites covering new TV's or fridges.
As for Gruber's claim, that might not be 100% false. I've noticed that after being heavily criticized by a minority of their readers who are very active and Microsoft fans, about "being too hard on Microsoft/Nokia", TheVerge usually tries to "make up for it", by compensating with other positives or writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP. They even seem to have one full time writer that only writes about these sort of stories lately (Tom Warren).
Whether these moves are good or bad, that's for anyone to judge. I just think they are a little too reactionary, and I'm not particularly fond of it. I think they'd be better off if they did what they thought it's best, although listening to some feedback I guess can't hurt.
And all that being said, I think TheVerge is one of the more "objective" and impartial tech news sites around, and I think they generally do their best to keep it that way, which is something I like about them.
Well I mean they're writing more stories about Microsoft/Nokia/WP because the phones were announced and are eventually going to be released soon. And I'm guessing they give one full-time writer one specific topic so they have a writer who actually follows along with what's going on with the subject.
I mean they were one of the bigger news sites to come out and accuse Nokia of doctoring their OIS videos (albeit they also got an exclusive article afterwards showing how well the OIS photos looked compared to other phones). I don't think either Gruber or Marco's accusations hold much weight.