Dig out your outdated iPod and hearth up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing unhappy information. After greater than 15 years protecting the whole lot Apple, it’s with a heavy coronary heart I announce that we are going to not be publishing new content material on iMore.
I need 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 not too long ago began studying to seek out out what the hell Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is, it’s been a privilege to serve you a each day slice of Apple pie.
Launching within the wake of the very first iPhone again in 2008, a game-changing gadget not only for Apple however the world at giant, 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 come back.
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 without end 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 taking part in area. It’s been a pleasure to serve such a passionate readership through the years, but it surely’s time to move the baton to new writers, new websites, and new codecs.
I wish to take this second to thank everybody from the iMore group, previous and current, for his or her assist and keenness 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 surprise all these years again. I hope we’ve finished you all proud.
I’d like to provide a selected shout out to the ultimate iMore workforce 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 energetic 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, critiques, 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, critiques and options from the opposite facet of the tech fence, preserving 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
