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Am I the only one that thinks CrunchGear is only a Reflector for Engadget? I have been willing to give you a chance, but you rarely have content I haven’t already seen on Engadget, and the articles (and even pictures) make you look too clonish. (This post is a fine example – check out Engadget)
Don’t chase the same stories everyone else is chasing, or I won’t have the bandwidth to follow you.
Rob
if you are going to have a phone this advanced, a personwith any sense wouldnt be sticking it in their pocket so the trackball thingy wouldnt be anissue say if you got a beltclip or something along that line.
Goose, if news is good enough, it’s going to get play on all tech blogs, don’t you think? Does NBC say they won’t the story that Miss USA was caught in the backseat of Dick Cheney’s car just because ABC also has it? Is NBC a clone?
What if you read us first before you read Engadget? Are they a clone of us now?
What you’re advocating is telling us to find a niche, making us the Food Network instead of CNN.
Michael: I dunno about that, man. I’ve got my Treo 650, but (don’t take this the wrong way) I feel like a choad with a phone on a belt clip, I’m an in-the-pocket kind of guy. Same goes for my iPod. There’s not yet a way to wear technology without looking like a douche. That being said, the Pearl is sexxxy enough, I could think about it. Either way, you make a good point.
It is NOT Goose, thank you very much. No, I am not saying that you don’t report the same news others do – just either do it faster (first) or do it different (MANY of your posts look like you copied text from Engadget).
Hey, don’t mean to pee on your parade here – it was actually meant to be constructive. But if you would rather make fun of my name than defend your reporting, then you do that. I am a freaking subscriber from day one, not just passing by – show a little respect for a customer, ok?
But you are the new guy here, and I am just suggesting that you adjust your articles so they don’t seem so much of a clone of others. If that distresses you, respond to this comment and let me know. I’ll unsubscribe quicker than shit.
But the making fun of my name crap is juvenile, and I really hope that was done by a reader, and not a member of the staff. You should be above that.
Rob
Mike Arrington – read this:
http://lagesse.org/index.php/2006/09/17/crunchgear-blog-archive-pearls-trackball-kills-ringer-on-accident/
I don’t care what you write about tech, to be honest. You can copy the Wall Street Journal if you want. You can reject criticism if you want. You can have CrunchTech be an elitist group of “whatever the hell you see it becoming”.
You can ignore my advice if you want – I am fine with that. I can always get my information elsewhere.
But I’ll tell you what you can’t do – you can’t ignore people who offer suggestions, you can’t dismiss the opinions of people that have faithfully subscribed to you since the day you launched, and you CAN NOT have editors that make fun of your BEST customer’s names. Yes – your best customers are the ones that tell you what they DO NOT like. Your best customers are the ones that are the most difficult to satisfy. Those are the customers you learn from.
I know this is a young site, and the editors are probably young as well – but in the end this is an Arrington site, and you aren’t (overly) young, and you aren’t new to dealing with customers, and you SHOULD be teaching people what the value of a single customer is.
Rob
I think TechCrunch is great and getting better. Its a new site and still opening opportunities with manufacturers and companies for getting priority notification of press releases, product launches, etc.
While I agree that the name joke was lame (and I believe it was a reader not a CrunchGear editor), he brings up some good points. Many people don’t sit watching their feed aggregator waiting for the next feed to stream in to jump on it. I subscribe to Engadget and Gizmodo as well as CrunchGear. Of course, there is some overlap but there are also some differences. I usually read CrunchGear first because I like the commentary and fun spirit of the bloggers. I also like that CrunchGear filters their news feeds to some degree. I love technology and gadgets but I don’t want to read about every new transistor that rolls out globally nor do I believe that CrunchGear has the resources to fulfill that request.
For the record, a customer is a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron. We are readers/subscribers but not customers. We do not buy anything from CrunchGear, but we consume their information (and sometimes click their AdSense ads). Give the guys a break…it’s new, it’s free and it’s a community. I often will send a note to the tips@crunchgear.com email box when I find something new. I feel that’s just one way that I can contribute to this community and hopefully others do the same so posts are quicker and unique.
As to the phone, its cool (very Motorola Q) and I’m sure a firmware update will be released soon.
Webonics, I respectfully disagree. We are absolutely CrunchGear customers. A customer consumes a service another profits off of. Without us there would be no CrunchGear. Blog subscribers (especially to for-profit blogs) are certainly customers.
Sure, I don’t pay for this service, not directly – but that doesn’t make me any lessvaluable than if I did – because without subscribers this blog wouldn’t exist, and the revenue stream it generates wouldn’t exist.
I certainly hope the CrunchGear staff doesn’t share you opinion of whether or not I am a customer…
Rob