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Missing Anandtech.com right about now

by wicktron 1y ago

sonofhans 1y ago
/me pours one out
- alberth 1y ago
  Chips & Cheese is a good current alternative. https://chipsandcheese.com/ https://chipsandcheese.com/
fooker 1y ago
Just in case you didn’t know, dude works at Apple now! (For about ten years now..)
- musicale 1y ago
  I wonder if Anandtech would have lasted longer if that hadn't happened.
  - re-thc 1y ago
    Probably not. The market moved on. Giving such involved in depth articles for free was no sustainable compared to clickbait random articles.
- close04 1y ago
  Anand was involved in a scandal recently there [0]. Is he still in that job? The driving force behind the reviews for mobiles and related topics at AT was Andrei Frumusanu. His reviews had a level of depth very few even on AT could touch. But he left to work for Qualcomm so that ended his reviewer stint. [0] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/70653/anandtech-founder-sent-confidential-apple-material-to-nuvia-staffer/index.html https://www.tweaktown.com/news/70653/anandtech-founder-sent-...
  - rayiner 1y ago
    He’s still at Apple as of last year. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/an-anand-has-been-sighted.2618276/ https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/an-anand-has-been-sight... The “scandal” was unsubstantiated assertions in a Nuvia legal filing. Basically Apple accused Nuvia of poaching employees. In responding trying to show they were good guys, Nuvia said Anand sent them powerpoint slides marked confidential, but they responded that the communication was inappropriate. The case ultimately went to nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/. This doesn’t mean anything other than some lawyer thought it would be a good optics. I bet Apple’s default powerpoint slide template has confidential headers. And Nuvia would be right to cover its ass by responding the way it did—they don’t want anything marked Apple confidential in their possession even if the actual content of the slide is public information. Inclusion of the correspondence in the Nuvia legal filing could even have been a prophylactic measure, intended to get out in front of the evidence before Apple seized on it to show Nuvia did anything wrong. Just don’t believe stuff in legal filings. It’s not that they’re untrue, it’s that they’re definitionally self-serving and selected to paint the other side in the worst light possible. That’s a byproduct of our adversarial system.

Missing Anandtech.com right about now

sonofhans 1y ago

/me pours one out

alberth 1y ago
Chips & Cheese is a good current alternative. https://chipsandcheese.com/ https://chipsandcheese.com/

fooker 1y ago

Just in case you didn’t know, dude works at Apple now! (For about ten years now..)

musicale 1y ago
I wonder if Anandtech would have lasted longer if that hadn't happened.
- re-thc 1y ago
  Probably not. The market moved on. Giving such involved in depth articles for free was no sustainable compared to clickbait random articles.
close04 1y ago
Anand was involved in a scandal recently there [0]. Is he still in that job? The driving force behind the reviews for mobiles and related topics at AT was Andrei Frumusanu. His reviews had a level of depth very few even on AT could touch. But he left to work for Qualcomm so that ended his reviewer stint. [0] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/70653/anandtech-founder-sent-confidential-apple-material-to-nuvia-staffer/index.html https://www.tweaktown.com/news/70653/anandtech-founder-sent-...
- rayiner 1y ago
  He’s still at Apple as of last year. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/an-anand-has-been-sighted.2618276/ https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/an-anand-has-been-sight... The “scandal” was unsubstantiated assertions in a Nuvia legal filing. Basically Apple accused Nuvia of poaching employees. In responding trying to show they were good guys, Nuvia said Anand sent them powerpoint slides marked confidential, but they responded that the communication was inappropriate. The case ultimately went to nowhere: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/01/apple_nuvia_lawsuit/. This doesn’t mean anything other than some lawyer thought it would be a good optics. I bet Apple’s default powerpoint slide template has confidential headers. And Nuvia would be right to cover its ass by responding the way it did—they don’t want anything marked Apple confidential in their possession even if the actual content of the slide is public information. Inclusion of the correspondence in the Nuvia legal filing could even have been a prophylactic measure, intended to get out in front of the evidence before Apple seized on it to show Nuvia did anything wrong. Just don’t believe stuff in legal filings. It’s not that they’re untrue, it’s that they’re definitionally self-serving and selected to paint the other side in the worst light possible. That’s a byproduct of our adversarial system.