Brian Klug

[It's Not Lupus]

What happened to him?

 

[Crono]

No idea. Just checked and his Twitter is pretty quiet, too.

 

[mike5757]

https://twitter.com/nerdtalker

 

[Raduque]

A MicroSD card killed him.

 

[Belegost]

A MicroSD card killed him.

I think someone removed his battery...

 

[RossMAN]

E-Mail him and ask yourself?

brian at brianklug dot org

 

[Roland00Address]

Brian Klug is alive.

According to Anandtech on the last podcast he is working on something new (mid april). He was also still with Anandtech at the Modern World Conference in late February.

Most likely he is under some form of NDA or contract that keeps him silent. He could have possibly left Anandtech but he was under contract with Anandtech to not write anything for someone else until a certain period elapses (an exclusivity contract for 3 months or something). Or he could being paid to make a mobile benchmark for Android that is actually pretty good (Anand stated that this was something they wanted to do and some companies have offered to pay Anand to do so.) Or he can be working on grad school something he stated earlier on wanting to do. Or he could have joined the CIA and is deep undercover protecting the world from terrorists and badly designed phones.

In sum we do not know what is happening with Brian Klug, but we know he is alive and we know he is not talking about Anandtech. This could be a NDA or this could be something completely different, it is not our business to know, and even though we are curious we just need to accept that we do not know and move on.

I hope Brian Klug the best for he was an interesting voice at Anandtech and brought much joy to me because he was so interesting and novel.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I hope Brian Klug the best for he was an interesting voice at Anandtech and brought much joy to me because he was so interesting and novel.

Amen. Brian added a level of sophistication that mobile often lacks. Even when you read or listen to stuff from other Android "experts," it was never the same level of amazing details Brain could bring to the table.

 

[Razorbak86]

Brian Klug is alive.

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[It's Not Lupus]

http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/found...ple-hire-from-hardware-review-site-anandtech/

guess he's at apple, too.

 

[RU482]

whoa

 

[RossMAN]

http://9to5mac.com/2014/08/31/found...ple-hire-from-hardware-review-site-anandtech/

guess he's at apple, too.

Yep in addition to Anand retiring and also being snatched up by Apple.

 

[lopri]

It doesn't look like Anand gave up on the site at all. Call me cynic but neither - that he took a job at Apple and that he is still behind the curtain - is surprising.

On a personal level I’ve made myself available to all AnandTech editors for advice and guidance, however I have fully removed myself from the editorial process. I can offer a suggestion on how to deal with a situation so long as describing the situation does not reveal any confidential information to me.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8456/the-road-ahead

I mean, it's his site and he can do whatever he wants, but saying that he divorced himself with the editorial process without disclosing whatever steps are taken to ensure such thing is akin to saying Roger Ailes has nothing to do with Fox News' editorial process.

 

[WelshBloke]

It doesn't look like Anand gave up on the site at all. Call me cynic but neither - that he took a job at Apple and that he is still behind the curtain - is surprising.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8456/the-road-ahead

I mean, it's his site and he can do whatever he wants, but saying that he divorced himself with the editorial process without disclosing whatever steps are taken to ensure such thing is akin to saying Roger Ailes has nothing to do with Fox News' editorial process.

I'd imagine that other tech companies are going to be a bit more wary of sharing information with the main site now.

 

[Roland00Address]

Brian Klug is alive.
Or he could have joined the CIA and is deep undercover protecting the world from terrorists and badly designed phones.

See I was right!!! Brian Klug is undercover working for a secret organization that believes they are protecting the world from evil

Just because their logo is a piece of fruit with lots of color does not mean they are a black ops organization. Just look at how they are destabilizing markets and shaping the world to their whim.

Some people may compare this secret organization to terrorist but I disagree this secret "company" goal is to produce stuff (and make semi fulls of cash followed by swimming in it) and terrorism goal is to create terror and goad you.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Even more proof, the fact he is so undercover that no one can find him in this hyperconnected world with government spying proves that he is now part of an organization that can shape the entire planet.

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I wonder if Tim Cook has a cat and a mechanical arm?

 

[Mopetar]

I mean, it's his site and he can do whatever he wants, but saying that he divorced himself with the editorial process without disclosing whatever steps are taken to ensure such thing is akin to saying Roger Ailes has nothing to do with Fox News' editorial process.

Even if he does disclose more information, at the end of the day either you take him on his word or you don't because you can't possibly be entirely certain of his level of involvement.

It depends on what his role at Apple is as well. If he's in PR there's more reason to be wary, but if he's on an engineering team somewhere, it seems as though he'd have a lot less contact with the writers at AT unless he was leaking them information, but AT typically doesn't deal in rumors, so even that seems less likely.

 

[lopri]

Of course "Trust me" isn't going to cut it. Is it for anyone? ^^

I mean, that he took a job at Apple, not at Sony (for example), should be telling enough.

 

[x26]

A MicroSD card killed him.

 

[Commodus]

Of course "Trust me" isn't going to cut it. Is it for anyone? ^^

I mean, that he took a job at Apple, not at Sony (for example), should be telling enough.

Actually, yes this does cut it!

It's always amusing how commenters on general tech news sites like to believe there's a giant, sinister conspiracy where any outlet that ever says something good about an Apple product is on the take... which basically means that every site that isn't an Android or Windows fan site is on the take. I'd love to see one of these "conspiracy!" people actually provide evidence (and no, a positive review of a product is not evidence).

The boring truth about why Anand and Brian went to Apple: Apple designs its own processors and is otherwise more involved in the hardware side of things than usual, so it could use their expertise. Besides, Apple is in the US, and most of its rivals have their engineering abroad -- even if many of them made their own chips (they usually don't), it'd be a lot tougher to integrate Anand and Brian into their ranks.

 

[s44]

The boring truth about why Anand and Brian went to Apple: Apple designs its own processors and is otherwise more involved in the hardware side of things than usual, so it could use their expertise.

Despite a pretty good grounding in the nitty gritty of the field, both Brian and Anand are journalists, not engineers. It's bizarre how many people expect them to be working on actual SoC design... Explaining != doing. I'd be pretty stunned if they're not in either PR or consumer experience design type stuff.

 

[Crono]

Despite a pretty good grounding in the nitty gritty of the field, both Brian and Anand are journalists, not engineers. It's bizarre how many people expect them to be working on actual SoC design... Explaining != doing. I'd be pretty stunned if they're not in either PR or consumer experience design type stuff.

Brian Klug is an "Optical Sciences & Engineering graduate from the University of Arizona" and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he were working in that area.

http://www.brianklug.org/about/

 

[Eug]

Despite a pretty good grounding in the nitty gritty of the field, both Brian and Anand are journalists, not engineers. It's bizarre how many people expect them to be working on actual SoC design... Explaining != doing. I'd be pretty stunned if they're not in either PR or consumer experience design type stuff.

Not that I'm saying they're going to be working on SoC design, but both of them are in fact engineers.

Brian Klug is an "Optical Sciences & Engineering graduate from the University of Arizona" and it wouldn't surprise me at all if he were working in that area.

http://www.brianklug.org/about/

And Anand is a computer engineer.

 

[openwheel]

Good for Apple. Great snags of Anand and Brian (if true).