Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
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Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
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Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#2I wonder what happened behind the scenes at AMZN to make this possible.
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#3I haven't used Gear Patrol much in the past. Are their reviews of the same quality as DPReview's?
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#4I hope they can update their horrible forum software.
I have been a user there for like 10 or 15 years, I don't recall, and the ui sucks.
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#5This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles.
Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
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#6This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
Thats was dpreview entire business model though?
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#7This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
Thats was dpreview entire business model though?
Dpreview's reviews from their golden era are of vastly higher quality and depth than anything I've seen on Gear Patrol's website, which also stretches itself thin over multiple domains, not just DSLR photography.
I have little hope that that quality or depth will be replicated in the future.
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#8This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
I actually enjoy Gear Patrol. I have had them in my rss feed for years. I understand what you are saying but they do keep me up to date on certain things.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#9This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
I've come across a few Gear Patrol articles in my mobile chrome feed and I must agree - they aren't very helpful. It seems like they just want to add to their network with a quality domain name.
> Will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol? > Our current core editorial, tech, and business team is moving forward with DPReview. Gear Patrol is committed to continuing DPReview’s industry leading journalism, and we look forward to collaboratively investing in the site’s future moving forward.
As I read it, this is corporate-speak for 'no one from DPReview staff will join', so I'd expect it to become more bland content where you wonder if the writer actually used the products or just read the best buy product pages.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#10That's great. Despite the fact that I had little to no use for dpreview anymore (I haven't picked up my SLR in 5-10 years), it made me very sad that dpreview was going away. Their reviews were exceedingly through and in-depth and could be trusted. Happy news for all of the dpreview team!