Sick of Apple News on Tom's Hardware? Read This
Tired of reading about the iPad and other Apple related happenings on Tom's Hardware?
Technology is technology. There's a lot to know about, and it's good to understand things from all angles. There's a lot that Apple does that actually influences other companies to do things better. Like them or not, Apple is a big influence, and as such, we will continue to cover Apple news wherever appropriate.
But, I've heard some of your cries that our Apple related news is melting your eyeballs. Fear not.
While this solution isn't ideal, it's something that I've setup for those of you who are interested of seeing Tom's Hardware news without Apple articles. In the future, we'll work on a better solution that's integrated into the site. But for now, you can hit this link:
http://www.feedrinse.com/services/channel/?chanurl=ecf04781ea3c61683df0e65c752f3486
And be presented with full Tom's Hardware News without any Apple info.
This doesn't include Tom's Guide, since Tom's Guide focuses on consumer products and not enthusiast hardware like Tom's Hardware does. I hope this is sufficient for now until we finish working on some type of integrated filtering system so that you don't have to leave the site to filter out content you don't want to see.
Again, hopefully we can have something integrated in place, but for now, I hope that will please some of you.
Take care,
/ Tuan
Director, News Operations
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Wow, I'm surprised. That's showing quite some love for the knuckleheads who don't know how to NOT CLICK LINKS THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO READ.
woohoo!! the only "apple related" news im interested in is the mac padd haha
Apple News like "The new iPad" or "New version of iPhone" it's ok, but there are lots of news about the same product again and again. I don't want to stop hearing about Apple, just moderate the news about them. Thanks, salutes.
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copy engadget much?
copy engadget much?
Do you want this or not? Yes or no?
Wow, I'm surprised. That's showing quite some love for the knuckleheads who don't know how to NOT CLICK LINKS THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO READ.
Thank you, it really is just that SIMPLE. If you don't like the feeling of your "eyes melting" then don't put the hot iron on it.
Really Tuan, that is not needed, people are just not obliged to click on a particular link!
I am a proud owner of many devices/gadgets/computers, NONE of them made by apple; I think iTunes is a disgraceful piece of software, and I just wish no site on earth would require me tu have quicktime installed to access some content, but that does not mean I'm not interested in technology. Hey, they might actually make a product I will want sometime in the future!
... er.... probably not, because it's the underlying philosophy that gets reflected in the end product that bothers me, and that is unlikely to change in the near future, at least while Jobs is the CEO, but it's always good to know, or be able to know, that's the point of a technology site like this.
Bottom line is, Apple is on the news. Don't like ? Don't read it. Read the ones you like, or come back later.
Do you want this or not? Yes or no?
Tom's does a good job afaik, it's not necessary, no, I don't want it.
Without the iPad articles where are we going to bash Apple? We need these articles in order to properly vent our Jobs induced frustration.
i don`t like tons of Apple news but i never complained about it, now where`s my cookie ?
This is amazing. That is all.
Wow, I'm surprised. That's showing quite some love for the knuckleheads who don't know how to NOT CLICK LINKS THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO READ.
They have been the ONLY links in town of late, sadly.
Tuan, while i certainly appreciate the effort you're making for some of your users, I think the intelligent community here has no problem seeing Apple products featured. If people are so lazy that they can't simply ignore an article they don't want to read, then they don't deserve Toms in the first place. Read what you want, people. It's not hard.
Believe me, this site isn't nearly as bad as Engadget. Or should I say iEngadget. Apple news is fine to me, as long as it's not 90% of the news. The general consensus here is that most of your viewers don't want an iPad. So, you'll be better received if you spend more time covering technology they are interested in.
I guess it was too hard for the blowhards who keep whining about Apple incessantly to just NOT click the links. There are constantly articles on Tom's I'm just not interested in reading. Maybe I should start clicking on these articles and going straight to the comments section to bitch about how I'm not interested in them. Sounds like a plan.
Guys complaining about this need to grow up. I wish Tom's wouldn't cave in to these cellar dweller fanboys.
Believe me, this site isn't nearly as bad as Engadget. Or should I say iEngadget. Apple news is fine to me, as long as it's not 90% of the news. The general consensus here is that most of your viewers don't want an iPad. So, you'll be better received if you spend more time covering technology they are interested in.
No, the "general" consensus of some commenters, are that they do not want Apple news. 99% of TH readers never post a comment. Still, I strive to please, while still reporting. This is a compromise I think is more than fair for those few who want to complain day in and day out.
/ Tuan
There is no problem with having Apple news on this site. The problem is that there's just way too many repeating Apple news that could be merged or updated like you often do with other articles. It's the consistency, man!
Why am I not surprised that the link doesn't work.
Tuan, April fool's day was 6 days ago.
No, the "general" consensus of some commenters, are that they do not want Apple news. 99% of TH readers never post a comment. Still, I strive to please, while still reporting. This is a compromise I think is more than fair for those few who want to complain day in and day out./ Tuan
Yes, but the negative comments about the iPad also have 20+ thumbs up.
There is no problem with having Apple news on this site. The program is that there's just way too many repeating Apple news that could be merged or updated like you often do with other articles. It's the consistency, man!
News is only single-paged, and each individual topic is its own page. And we update news very frequently, and things scroll off the page fast, we cannot keep cramming iPad news into one long scrolling page. This is the way it works on every other news site out there.
And like others here have pointed out, it's very easy, don't like Apple news, don't click. It can't get any easier than that. We can't make you read anything you DON"T want to read.
/ Tuan
Yes, but the negative comments about the iPad also have 20+ thumbs up.
That doesn't account for very much. Comment traffic makes up less than 1% of 1% of total traffic. Yet, I am still trying to please that small group.
/ Tuan
Why am I not surprised that the link doesn't work.Tuan, April fool's day was 6 days ago.
I guess FeedRinse is having a problem.
/ Tuan
I'm not against Apple news, but rather I'm against the fact that there are better tech related things that should be covered instead of Apple stuff.
Apple News like "The new iPad" or "New version of iPhone" it's ok, but there are lots of news about the same product again and again. I don't want to stop hearing about Apple, just moderate the news about them. Thanks, salutes.
You dont have to open the article
Its not THAT there is Apple news, its that any and every inane Apple related thing makes it into the 'news'. Great, they launched some new kool-aid, do we really need to spend the next two weeks repeating that over, and over, and over again? As if the year of rumors leading up to it wasnt enuf...
I honestly don't mind the Apple articles, as long as there is a healthy dose of NON-Apple articles as well.
I like to know what apple is up to, but it does get a little annoying seeing APPLE APPLE APPLE down the news list. I don't think people should complain about Apple articles in their comments either. I mean no one is forcing anybody to read anything.
Just my thoughts.
Tuan, another good example of how Tom's Hardware listens to its patrons and takes steps to ensure that the site is as strong as it can be. I won't be filtering Apple-related articles out quite yet, but thanks for demonstrating, again, that you guys do actually listen to us.
Now all we need is for you guys to tighten up a little bit which articles deserve to be displayed in red, which seems to be happening with great frequency as of late...
Question: What is a fair representation of Tom's readers?
Question: What is a fair representation of Tom's readers?
If you really must know, there is usually a 4X to 5X greater read rate of Apple related news than their are other hardware related news. That may sound surprising but that's what the stats says.
For example, when we posted our first details about ATI's 5000 series GPUs in the news, it was hot, and did around 11,000 PVs. Comparatively, typical Apple news do an order of magnitude several times that. Since news is only single paged, this easily indicates that there is far more interest. Despite this being Tom's Hardware, that's what our stats show, internally, and via Google Analytics.
But that's besides the point.
My point is that there are some who don't want to see it AT ALL, and keep complaining and bashing about it, so I am giving them a solution--at least a temporary one until we can implement an integrated news filter system so that they can customize TH to what they'd like to see.
/ Tuan
I admire Tom's for taking the initiative to try and meet their readers' individual tastes. But what about people who don't like articles about futuristic yachts, or solar powered cars, or game software, or productivity software, or browser software, or netfix related news, or... I'll stop there. This is a road you don't want to go down.