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The Cider Press
iWitness · Live
The Cider Press
iWitness · Live
Independent tech journalism · Est. 2026
Apple, Tesla, AI, Android, and the supply chain underneath all of it — reported in the open, verified twice, and collected every Friday in a printed issue worth keeping.
Independent pieces run through the week; the weekly issue collects them. Three off the press right now.
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Issue 001 is out Friday, October 23. A new issue follows every Friday. Drag or tap a dot to browse — tap the front issue to pick it up.
The carousel keeps the ten most recent issues. Everything older is filed here — nothing is ever taken down.
Posts and stories as they land, newest first. Every item links out to the story.
The wire is quiet.
Nine standing series across reviews, knowledge, and news — each filed under its category. Tap a series to open its index: every article filed under it, newest first.
First impressions, launch days, and events — filed while the line is still outside.
The one-week review. After the honeymoon, before the verdict hardens.
The in-depth review. The whole product, taken apart and put back together.
Deep dives — the technology under the technology, surveyed to the bottom.
Software updates, read like documents — every change that matters, none that don't.
Tips and tricks worth the thirty seconds they take to learn.
Live reporting as it happens — launches, keynotes, and news while it's still warm.
The insider series — inside knowledge and behind-the-scenes, on the record.
Automotive, driven hard — road tests and verdicts from behind the wheel.
A slice of life, shot on iPhone. Readers send photographs; the Press chooses, sequences, and captions them into collections — and the week's collection is featured inside Friday's issue, credited, always, exactly as shot.
First Frost — the first cold light of the season. Selections feature in Issue 005 · Friday, November 20, 2026.
Anyone may submit — a bigger pool makes better curation. Supporter submissions are reviewed first in the queue; priority buys speed of consideration, never selection. What gets published stays purely editorial.
Your shelf, your saved stack, and the plate that marks the library as yours.
Founder — for life. Fundamental to the founding.
A bookplate, not a badge — it marks this library as someone's own. It carries no publish access; press passes live only in the Studio, on Editor and approved Columnist accounts.
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Series and desks, followed by the address they file under — matched to your shelf when something new lands.
Submissions are open to everyone. Supporter standing moves yours to the front of the review queue — never ahead in selection.
As printed in the colophon of every issue — № 042 · TITANIUM FOUNDER — listed among the five hundred who were fundamental to the founding.
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Slices submissions ride the standard queue. The shelf stays empty of editions and exclusives — those belong to Supporters, and the page doesn't pretend otherwise.
Where pieces are written, evidenced, and filed — in the house template, against the Five Standards.
The Studio does not appear on Reader or Supporter accounts — no greyed entry, no lock, no teaser. It renders only when the signed-in account is an Editor or an approved Columnist. Membership buys standing and collection, never a door into the newsroom.
Press accounts · Coming Soon — sign-in opens with the Studio's launch
The newsroom's credential — the pass signs the byline.
The same pass, the same credential — an approved columnist carries what an editor carries.
There is one press pass at the Press, and it belongs to the two roles that can publish: Editors and approved Columnists carry the identical credential. Supporters hold the bookplate in My Collection — a different object for a different standing, never a pass.
COLUMNIST STANDING — Columnist access revokes automatically after 90 days of inactivity. A lapsed columnist returns through priority submission: their next pitch jumps the review queue, and approval restores the pass. Editor standing does not lapse.
Holds the bookplate. May pitch a column — approval is an editor's read, never a guaranteed byline.
Carries the pass, and publishes under the strictest review — every piece is editor-reviewed before it files. After 10 solid published articles, a columnist may apply onward.
By application, once the ten pieces stand. Trusted with a less strict review — a lighter editorial touch, earned by the record.
Invitation only. Proven volunteer journalists with the availability may be invited onto the paid team. No application, no queue.
A later thing · Not yet openFOR THE READER, NOT THE FILE — THE TAG SAYS WHAT KIND OF PIECE THIS IS; THE SOURCING LABEL SAYS HOW SURE WE ARE.
The dek prints here, in italic, under the headline.
On publish, the piece lands in Latest, its series index, and the weekly-issue pool — filed by the address alone.
What the Press is, how a piece is addressed, and the rules the work answers to.
The Cider Press is an independent magazine of tech journalism — reporting that holds the hardware and tests the claims, published at the speed of a feed with the standards of a newspaper.
We are a small team and we write as one. Articles run through the week; once a week, the week is collected into a single issue — sealed until Friday, then unwrapped, read, and shelved. The reporting is free for everyone, and stays that way.
Receipts are the house style. Sources are linked, rumors are labeled with their strength, and corrections stay public, stamped, and attached to the piece they correct.
No ad networks, no trackers, no sponsored posts — ever. *The asterisk is honest: at most, a single named sponsor of an issue, labeled as exactly what it is.
The bar is the biggest outlet in the field, applied to everything — a two-line brief gets the same care as a cover story. If it isn't good enough to sign, it doesn't ship.
Readers are inside the magazine, not just in front of it: issues you unwrap, photography you submit, columns you can pitch, subjects you can vote to send to the deep end.
The Press ends. There is a last page and a colophon, not an endless scroll engineered to keep you. A publication that respects your attention enough to stop.
Independence you can point at: the money comes from the people who read the work, and the source of it is printed where everyone can see it.
Independent articles as the news earns them — verified first, published when proven, never held for a prettier hour.
The week collected into one issue, sealed until its moment — anticipation is part of the design, not a delay.
Day One becomes In Hand becomes Above the Fold — one device, revisited on schedule, the verdict evolving on the record.
Issues take their place on the shelf and stay there — the ten most recent within reach, the rest in a permanent archive.
The Cider Press · Pressed daily. Independent, reader-funded, and finished — every issue closes with a colophon, and this is its last line.
Membership is patronage, not a paywall — the reporting stays free for everyone.
The first five hundred are Founders —
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Supporters from the founding are counted as fundamental to it. Their standing never expires, and their number is never reissued.
The first hundred through the door. The founding of the founding.
The second wave of the founding — in before the Press was a habit.
The founding closes at five hundred. Every one of them, for life.
Regular supporter membership, from № 501 onward — same Press, same welcome, after the founding window.
A Founder № on the bookplate at the head of your shelf, a supporter mark wherever your name appears — and your name in the colophon of every issue, permanently in the magazine. Standing is not a credential: the bookplate is yours alone, and it opens no newsroom doors.
Every weekly issue arrives as a numbered supporter edition for your own shelf — the set fills in, week by week, in a format worth holding on to.
Limited numbered editions — cover prints and supporter pieces, capped and genuinely gone when they're gone. Supporters hold a reserved allocation before any public release. And every issue of the magazine carries an exclusive sticker sheet — seal, glyph, wordmark, and that issue's number — printed for that issue alone and never reprinted.
Supporters may pitch an independent column for the Press. Approval makes you a Columnist — a writing role with publish access, held to the same Five Standards as staff. You earn an editor's read, never a guaranteed byline.
Photography submissions are open to everyone; supporters' photographs are reviewed first. Priority buys speed of consideration — selection stays earned, always.
Your follows and reading shape the path around the magazine — what surfaces first, what lands in your digest — and every tailored pick shows its reason.
Shown because you follow Depth MapThe issue itself is never tailored: same cover, same contents, for everyone. An editor's selection is the product.
The library card. Reading itself is free for everyone, forever.
Everything a Reader has — plus standing, collection, and a voice.
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