Dig out your outdated iPod and hearth up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing unhappy information. After greater than 15 years masking the whole lot Apple, it’s with a heavy coronary heart I announce that we’ll not be publishing new content material on iMore.
I wish to kick off by thanking you all to your assist over the various years and incarnations of the positioning. Whether or not you had been a day-one early adopter within the ‘PhoneDifferent’ days, got here on board with ‘The iPhone Weblog,’ or lately began studying to seek out out what the hell Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is, it’s been a privilege to serve you a day by day slice of Apple pie.
Launching within the wake of the very first iPhone again in 2008, a game-changing machine 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 expertise 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 could Apple Intelligence reshape the best way we work together with expertise for years to come back.
It’s a eager reminder that the world of expertise 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 eternally evolving too, as do the types of expertise 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 spotlight 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 through the years, however it’s time to cross the baton to new writers, new websites, and new codecs.
I wish to take this second to thank everybody from the iMore neighborhood, previous and current, for his or her assist and fervour for what we’ve created through the years. A large thanks goes to iMore’s earlier leaders, Lory Gil, Serenity Caldwell, and Joe Keller, and naturally, the inimitable Rene Ritchie who kickstarted this marvel all these years again. I hope we’ve accomplished you all proud.
I’d like to present a specific shout out to the ultimate iMore workforce that I’ve labored most intently with, and that has been an honor to guide 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 neighborhood. Our sister websites TechRadar.com and TomsGuide.com may even proceed to publish all the most recent information, critiques, and extra from the world of Apple-based computing, whereas our buddies at WindowsCentral.com and AndroidCentral.com have the privilege of constant to serve you class-leading information, critiques and options from the opposite aspect of the tech fence, retaining 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 suppose completely different for all these years. We’ll see you within the nice iCloud backup within the sky.
—Gerald and the iMore workforce
