Dig out your outdated iPod and fireplace up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing unhappy information. After greater than 15 years masking every part Apple, it’s with a heavy coronary heart I announce that we are going to now not be publishing new content material on iMore.
I need to kick off by thanking you all on your help over the numerous years and incarnations of the location. Whether or not you have been a day-one early adopter within the ‘PhoneDifferent’ days, got here on board with ‘The iPhone Weblog,’ or just lately began studying to search out out what the hell Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is, it’s been a privilege to serve you a every day slice of Apple pie.
Launching within the wake of the very first iPhone again in 2008, a game-changing system not only for Apple however the world at massive, it’s considerably becoming that we wrap publication right here in 2024 on the precipice of the launch of a brand new industry-shifting know-how from Apple within the form of Apple Intelligence. Simply as Apple wasn’t the primary firm to make a smartphone, it’s not the primary to check the waters of synthetic intelligence, both — however simply because the iPhone turned world-conquering, so too might Apple Intelligence reshape the way in which we work together with know-how for years to return.
It’s a eager reminder that the world of know-how by no means stands nonetheless: The time period ‘synthetic intelligence’ was the reserve of science fiction within the early days of the iPhone. The world of publishing is endlessly evolving too, as do the types of know-how journalism that look to shine a light-weight on the {industry}. iMore leaves the stage at a pivotal crossroads for on-line publishing, the place the battle for readers’ time and a focus is extra demanding than ever earlier than, and the aforementioned AI advances and search discovery strategies additional complicate the enjoying area. It’s been a pleasure to serve such a passionate readership over time, however it’s time to cross the baton to new writers, new websites, and new codecs.
I want to take this second to thank everybody from the iMore group, previous and current, for his or her help and fervour for what we’ve created over time. An enormous thanks goes to iMore’s earlier leaders, Lory Gil, Serenity Caldwell, and Joe Keller, and naturally, the inimitable Rene Ritchie who kickstarted this surprise all these years again. I hope we’ve performed you all proud.
I’d like to provide a specific shout out to the ultimate iMore staff that I’ve labored most intently with, and that has been an honor to steer over the previous few years: Stephen, Tammy, John-Anthony, Daryl, and James, in addition to our many common contributors — thanks for placing a smile on my face every day. I can’t wait to see what you all do subsequent.
iMore will keep on-line so readers can proceed to entry articles from the archive, and the discussion board at https://boards.imore.com/ will stay lively till November 1 to serve our group. Our sister websites TechRadar.com and TomsGuide.com may also proceed to publish all the most recent information, evaluations, and extra from the world of Apple-based computing, whereas our buddies at WindowsCentral.com and AndroidCentral.com have the privilege of continuous to serve you class-leading information, evaluations and options from the opposite aspect of the tech fence, conserving you updated with the most recent from Microsoft and Google.
Now it’s time to shut these Watch rings, put a gag on Siri, and guzzle down the iBeer app one final time. Thanks for letting us assume completely different for all these years. We’ll see you within the nice iCloud backup within the sky.
—Gerald and the iMore staff