Definitely. Android central must not have had a feeding in a while.
I think there are a couple of the same jackasse$ as usual but some of the detractors are making some good points. And to tell you the truth I don't feel like the work being done over at Android Central is that of them trying to sell you on buying Android devices. As a matter of fact the main guys there like Phil, Jerry, and Andrew are very critical of Android related things that deserve criticism. Obviously this platform that we use is much more polished so there isn't nearly as much to criticize so if there weren't articles like this between each iPhone season there wouldn't be much to talk about here.
I don't know. Ever since iMore got the invite to the iPhone 6 event it seems that the blogging has been geared more towards making sure the site gets an invite again. Which is fine. That's business and Rene is doing his job.