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My letter to Toms Hardware, please read and take a side.

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October 3, 2013 3:28:03 AM

Dear Tom`s,

I have been a loyal member and since October 12, 2011, and have my share of badges, Toms hardware was always my beacon of tech news in my early tech days, and sadly at my early stages it was my sole site for tech news, then i expanded and start adding more variety and bookmarks to my browser, and all the other sites that i view for example :

Anadtech + fudzilla + VR-zone + xbitlabs + wccftech

All of the above sites to my surprise, didn't have a fixed standard where Intel/Nvidia always superior, while they all have there unique characteristics and methods, they always varied, while you were stuck.

Tom Hardware failing to cover AMD tech GPU 14 was the tip of the iceberg for me, but not the main reason, the lack of subjective opinions and complicated benchmarks + bench scores, that can sway either way, did it for me.

Sure Today AMD can be hurting but what about Tomorrow when Intel goes after ARM, where will Tom stand ??? and how many minds can it amend, any good respectable I.T personnel knows that Intel bribes or use sleezy marketing tactics, and the proof is all over the internet, it wont take you 5-15 mins to research them.

The only good remaining thing, is the helpful community in Tom Hardware Forum, and without them your lost, so please start to respect those people more, instead of respecting $

However this my opinion, hope you can respect it and dont delete my thread, put i will be deleting my account soon, but not now cause i am afraid if deleting it will delete this thread.

Best,
Emad Ramlawi.

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October 3, 2013 4:18:21 AM

I'm going to move this to the appropriate section.

This started off looking like another thread alleging bias without actually citing any evidence, but then you went on a tangent about marketing and respecting the community and I'm not sure what your overall point is. So to answer the poll question: I don't know. What am I meant to be "with you" about?
October 3, 2013 6:53:17 AM

If you look up the origins of Tom's Hardware, you will discover that our claim to fame was and is soundly rejecting the computer hardware "payola" schemes that proliferate, where advertisers and manufacturers will pay for good reviews. We will never abandon this objective and remain true to our roots. We take all allegations of biased reporting or editorial seriously - if you have specific sources to cite, we will investigate them and respond accordingly. Otherwise, please refrain from making baseless and unfounded statements about Tom's Hardware. Especially refrain from making generic, broad statements without source or reference.

For coverage on AMD's offerings, our own Chris Angelini and Marcus Yam just went in person to a huge event hosted by AMD to announce their upcoming products, and coverage is present for all competitive brands. So, not entirely sure what you are referring to about a lack of coverage.
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October 3, 2013 7:18:31 AM

Perhaps he's upset that unlike some of the sites he mentioned THG is not an AMD sponsored site and as such doesn't hype up every AMD product.
October 3, 2013 11:44:53 AM

We aren't "sponsored" by anyone. We do our own thing, whether the advertisers want to sell high-end cases, RAM, goat feed or hair product. We do have some advertisers who will sponsor content that is clearly not editorial or news, marked clearly as sponsored by them, and we are very, very careful and cognizant about maintaining a great wall of separation between sales and community/editorial/news. Tom's got its start speaking truth to power in the computer industry, taking several of the manufacturers to task for faults and issues where other sites would not. We still do this, amidst cries from usually both sides of any major brand war that we are taking sides, or leaving things out.

As a for instance, we report on Apple products that come out, and I don't think I've ever seen Apple advertise with us. A while back, I ran a count after one of our authors received some heavy criticism over what they called too much on Apple products, and that Tom's was on the take. It turned out that we posted almost 28% more articles about Samsung alone than we did about Apple, using precisely the same type of language. We take this stuff very seriously, and trust once lost is almost never regained.
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