I don't think the difference here is the population size.
I think the biggest difference is the target audience.
Old computer magazines: sophisticated, educated readers that want the truth.
New tech sites: uneducated masses, typically teenagers that just want confirmation bias on their choice.
It's also increasingly complicated today to be a magazine like Byte was back in the day. Even if a team tries really hard, it's no use, the universe is so big that's impossible to report everything, the publication will always be lying by occultation.
I hate this, right now, you can’t do anything out of free will.
I’m not insured with them, but if I am, can I go to the gym, and enjoy it, or will I be always subconsciously thinking “I’m doing this to save insurance money”.
I’m saddened to see Apple go that way to sell Apple Watches, I would expect this from many companies, none of them being Apple. BTW, loving my Series 0 since the first day they came out.
Apple users won’t complain, sure there will be a lot of fake iHater complaints on the web, but you can choose your search engine provider on iOS and anyone smart enough to be bothered, will be smart enough to change the search provider.
Because on iOS, first, it's only possible with SIP calls. Second, a red tab bar appears while on that, alerting the user that a background call is in place. Third, Apps can't make this on their own, no background execution.
Also, there's no way Apps can access any logs on iOS.
Thankfully, iOS 11 AppStore is much faster for everything.