And yet he was dead wrong about the new iPhone having Cortex A15 in the other post, that made everyone on the Internet think that Apple uses Cortex A15. So much for his reputation. I wonder what will remain of it if this proves wrong, too.
He speculated on the options Apple had for the iPhone 5 SoC, and speculated wrong. No big deal, it happens to every tech website or blog that tries to predict future products. Now he has some tangible evidence about the nature of the A6 core (the fact that XCode now has build profiles for ARMv7s + VFPv4) and supposedly got confirmation from someone in the know that the A6 is a custom design. Seems like a safe bet this is right to me.
It almost seem you want Anand to be wrong, you have some personal beef with him?
Just want to add that Anandtech has really stepped it up this year with great iPhone coverage. It's a nice contrast to countless other speculation/rumor articles with no valuable insight and "controversy = page hits!" articles that just fan the flames of the "Apple vs. Everyone Else" arguments that saturate tech blogs.
I totally agree. AnandTech is one of the very few remaining tech websites that are still really about the technology itself, instead of all the other aspects that ignite flamewars and hating everywhere else.
The Verge isn't too bad either if you ignore the comments section, but everything else is just like you said, speculation/rumor sites that value page hits over actually writing something informative.
