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strategy will focus more on traffic and collaboration with sales and SEO.
Well Engadget, you had a good run.
We need more clickbait, less real info, maybe have an AI write it all??
You mean like CNET?
Half their posts are basically ads.
“collaboration with sales and SEO teams is key moving forward” That’s definitely what the people want. Sounds like a recipe for quality tech reporting you dumb fuck.
The economy doesn’t care what people aka consumers want anymore. At shareholder insistence of sabotaging the future for a short term stock boost, they merge, buy, and consolidate to eliminate competition, lay off their talent crippling that sector’s ability to provide the product/service they existed to provide in the first place, and laugh all the way to the bank offering broken, useless shadows of once useful products/services because where else you gonna go? We ate the ones that made superior products and put a stop to that bullshit!
The ultimate goal of capitalism is to end competition. This is the terminal stage. The nowhere left to grow/metastasize fire sale before their grift collapses, with it’s tentacles gripping captured world government’s throats, ready to take them with them as it perishes and the winners run away to their global havens and bunkers, mischief managed, wealth of nations siphoned, pillaged, and stolen.
Fucking Suckers.
I don’t know what others thought prior to this, but I still respected Engadget enough to visit their site directly from time to time. This is awful.
Engadget has slowly been dying for a decade. It feels like a slight step up from Gizmodo, which is also in pretty bad shape these days.
What tech blogs are still half way decent? The Verge?
Ars technica is still firing on all cylinders.
Went way downhill after the conde naste acquisition.
Definitely added some coverage to less computer tech, like the car reviews and pure science coverage, but in terms of treating their readers well, they’re still very good. Not that the bar is high, but still.
Tom’s hardware is still solid
And the terminal stage capitalism enshittification continues with nary a pitchfork or guillotine to be found.
Fuckers will be a hundred feet deep in their luxury bunkers, and half the choking peasants all working for one of 3 monopolies that own the entire crumbling global economy will still be like “we must stay the course. We’ve sunk too much gambling into this fallacy to quit now, cough.”
Humans are silly, silly creatures.
Everything is so bloated and captured… Kids, know that it wasn’t always like this.
At CNET — where Priestley previously worked, according to LinkedIn —
Say no more 🤮
What the hell is velocity and how does it relate to a website? Oh, maybe it’s a new term for “increasing the speed we churn content out using AI”.
Velocity is work done over time. It’s an Agile process thing.
True, I forgot about that from my time of being forced to use SAFe. I guess it still means they’ll use AI to churn out content faster than before the layoffs.
Velocity still applies in SAFe unless my firm does it wrong
I used to enjoy the old Joystiq site. Followed them to Engadget. Hell, I used the Joystiq url redirect bookmark until it stopped working. Might as well just delete the bookmark now, no sense it watching it slide further into irrelevancy.
