Founded in November 1998, DPReview is one of the few active review sites as old as Ars Technica. Amazon purchased it in 2007, and the site’s team has been located in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle since 2010.
It’s of course always an issue with a buy-out from a large corporate, as they just want to make money, and they have no interest in the actual product. It’s even worse when they buy up a product with the intention of just shutting it down to kill their competition.
DPReview was one of my go-to sites when purchasing cameras, but I must say I’ve been transitioning more and more to DXOMark as they had been benchmarking smartphone cameras very well. I’m wondering if DPReview had not stuck too much to DSLRs and cameras, and not really transitioned into the mobile space?