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Comment by walterbell | Hacker News Reader

Has a major technology media outlet taken a similar position as Bloomberg and The Economist?

Are there any people who care about what the “technology media” says?

Technology buyers? Technology sellers who pay tech media?

I do. I don't know Bloomberg or The Economist that well, but translating the media brands to Dutch ones, I'd definitely care more what Tweakers.net says about something than NOS - tech news versus general news. I know there are a few people at Tweakers who truly understand technology (like, they can probably write code) whereas at NOS you'd be happy if they explain the word "ransomware" correctly.

The Economist is usually surprisingly well-informed about things like these. It's pretty much the only mainstream newspaper where I can read articles about my field without cringing.

This. I'm not really sure if I need other news media in global affairs. If it's important Economist will cover it sooner or later, and if it's not, no one will remember it one month after the fact.

Fun fact: one of the tech journalists at the NOS (Joost Schellevis) worked for tweakers.net

Good point, now that you mention it I remember that. Trouble is also that the NOS has to dumb it down and ignore details though.

If these media weren't popular or read, there wouldn't be so many magazines still being sold, or tech websites that apparently make enough money to keep going.

The average person is insecure about more advanced details of tech topics, yet still needs to use laptops and smartphones to survive in modern society. That is the vast majority of people, and those are the people you should be the most worried about, because those people decide whether Intel will ultimately get away with this or not.

And honestly, with that in mind your remark looks like a thinly-veiled snobbish remark about how you don't fall for any of that.

>And honestly, with that in mind your remark looks like a thinly-veiled snobbish remark about how you don't fall for any of that.

I'm just dismissing the consumer market as mostly irrelevant in this context, not trying to make any snobbish remarks. We aren't discussing phones or laptops.

Call me crazy, but I would imagine that big Intel customers do not base their purchasing decisions on what Ars Technica, LinusTechTips or Tweakers.net have to say.

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