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by obmelvin 1101 days ago
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.

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I think you read that backwards, move forward in this context means they will continue working with dpreview at it's new home.

Are there changes coming? change is the only constant, but, it sounds like everyone who had a job yesterday at dpreview (a wholly owned division of amazon) will have one tomorrow at dpreview (a wholly owned division of gear patrol) .

The question was "will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol", and the answer said core as opposed to just simply affirming all, so perhaps not all staff get to keep their job.
For some reason I read the FAQ from the POV of Gear Patrol. I think the use of 'core' threw me off - it does feel like they are trying to avoid saying that some people lost their jobs. I do expect changes, and I do expect them to cryptically worded in a press release :)