Is it just me, or is Macrumors by far the best Apple-news aggregator out there? Their reporting is clean, straight-forward and thorough (e.g. I wasn't aware that X11 was important for scientists). They present the rumors and their validity(looking at past rumors and the sources) and that's it. No non-sense subjective babbling like you see on apple-insider.
Sorry for the derail, it's just something i've been noticing. I wish more people would like to them.
> Is it just me, or is Macrumors by far the best Apple-news aggregator out there?
Ars Technica's Infinite Loop section is very good in my experience, they don't tend to do rumor as much and their coverage is usually good and informed.
appleinsider's quality varies a lot and it has lots of terrible writers who really don't know jack (Prince McLean for instance, really should quit the internet altogether), and the 9to5 network is just garbage all around, with 9to5mac being the Apple-scenting of that garbage.
They're certainly not bad (and what I subscribe to in RSS) when one considers the field.
A lot of it is very US-centric and some of the 'rumours' aren't very news-worthy (the numerous stories on dock connectors for the iPad 3 come to mind) but it's far more like a news site that works mostly on facts (well, as close to facts as rumours can come) than mere speculation and conjecture. Arn, the guy who runs it, is an MD which might explain the difference to an extent.
Sorry for the derail, it's just something i've been noticing. I wish more people would like to them.