[citation][nom]willard[/nom]No, it's part of the systemic dumbing down of so-called "news" sites on the internet. It's all about page views for the ad revenue, and without them the sites fold. Out of necessity, sites do anything and everything to drive up views. This typically means a lax editing process to publish more stories per day, sensationalist headlines and a thousand articles a day about Apple (draws in the fanboys and haters alike) and an overall lowering of the bar on quality to emphasize quantity.There are still sites with a very high bar on quality (AnandTech being my favorite) if you're tired of reading week old, misspelled headlines here.[/citation]
Hit the nail on the head.
The more comments an article gets, the more articles you are going to see on that subject. Look at the comment sections of all the articles on Tom's, and you'll find that articles about Apple products produce far more commentary than anything else. This is where the saying "bad publicity is good publicity" comes from.