Mac News Back to Normal
I have daily perused many of the Apple-related news sites for quite a while now (years). I usually enjoy much of the content available, although I sometimes have to filter out the excess fanboyism (yea, nice word).
Since the release of the iPhone, there has been a shift in the focus of a few news sites. While I anticipated a lot of swirl around the iPhone shortly after its release, I didn’t anticipate it would last so long. A good example of this shift is The Unofficial Apple Weblog. TUAW is a great site that I have followed for years. Since late July, there have been many days when I wondered if there was any non-iPhone news in the Apple world.
Worse, many of the iPhone articles really were not front page news worthy. That is not to say it is not good content, but it may not be a priority for most readers. I am sure there is a small percentage of readers that really enjoy the play-by-play of every hack, updated app, and problem found with the iPhone. The rest of us, do not really need all that. A new firmware update, and what it brings, is something we all care about. However, every coding find, or random interface hack, not so much. I think they would have been better served to just have a daily digest of iPhone news that users could quickly browse through, instead of the many days where the entire front page was flooded with it.
On the flip side, it is news, and it’s good content. I think Erica Sadun, who has contributed a ton of this iPhone content is the perfect person to have creating it, as she seems to have developed an in depth understanding of the platform. I also think TUAW seems to be doing the best job of having iPhone content.
Recently, I have seen a shift back. It seems that we are heading back to the rest of the Apple world, where the many significant application releases, hardware updates, and general news regain their place with the iPhone. I am thrilled to see this balance coming back. I really hope it stays (until Apple released the iPhone dev kit).
