{"id":25002,"date":"2019-04-15T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25002"},"modified":"2019-04-17T08:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T12:14:49","slug":"10-years-of-macstories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/15\/10-years-of-macstories\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years of MacStories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I had a different idea for what I wanted MacStories to be in 2009. You see, as a newly-minted Apple aficionado<\/a> from Viterbo, Italy, who had just discovered the world of Apple blogging, I was fascinated by websites such as MacRumors<\/a>, TUAW<\/a>, Daring Fireball<\/a>, and Engadget<\/a>. I primarily wanted to use my longtime passion for in-depth videogame reviews (which I used to read on EDGE<\/a> and other magazines when I was younger) and bring that style to Mac and iPhone app reviews; at the same time, I also wanted to have a website that could cover news, share tutorials, and, why not, maybe in the future even report rumors. I wanted to do it all, even though I was just a 20-year old guy from Italy who’d never blogged in English before.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

As MacStories was slowly growing and I was finding an audience for my in-depth app reviews, I increasingly felt lured by the promise of timely news coverage and rumors. I thought that if MacStories could report Apple news and rumors as quickly as other websites, I could accelerate the process of a bigger audience stumbling upon MacStories and then discovering what really<\/em> made the website unique: in-depth app reviews and opinion pieces. At the time, the most important metric for me was page views (because MacStories was making money off traditional banner ads); therefore, my incentives were directly aligned with attracting the biggest possible audience. At the same time, I didn’t want to give up on the reason I started MacStories in the first place (writing in-depth reviews unlike anyone else), so I decided that I wanted to have my cake and eat it too. I was going to report news and rumors to attract a larger audience, and<\/em> I was going to continue writing app reviews for a dedicated, loyal niche too.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

At some point by the end of 2012, I made the decision that we were going to stop reporting rumors or leaks and that chasing news stories to be “first” was no longer going to be our priority. I decided that I wanted MacStories to go back to its roots by prioritizing original reporting, editorials, and reviews over rehashing information that other websites were covering better than MacStories anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: Congratulations<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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