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Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by hoerensagen »

newman314 wrote: post #129
throwaway5959 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thing is, we should defend MKBHD. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did his job.

Here's my $0.02 MKBHD posted an IMO unnecessarily clickbaity title to his review. I watched the review and thought that he was mostly on the ball except for the once again exaggeration that it's the worst product ever (for the views). In a way, it seems that the recent scathing review for Fisker and the views generated might have gone to his head somewhat. Given that the Rabbit R1 is coming out soon (which he will li…

It didn't say that it is the worst product ever. Only the worst product he ever reviewed. of course I don't know every product he ever reviewed, but it seems plausible that a 700$ product that is extremely bad at everything it is supposed to do is actually the worst one.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by hoerensagen »

youssefabdelm wrote: post #126
al_borland wrote: post #103

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It’s the opposite of clickbait. The title saves the viewer from having to watch the video at all, as it says everything someone really needs to know in that single line. It’s a bad product. I find it silly that people are pointing at MKBHD for the downfall of a company, instead of the people who ran the company and decided to launch when the experience wasn’t good and the value proposition was poor. Releasing early t…

It is clickbait. And people who think the product is shitty seem numb to that point because they're like "yeah it is shitty, just like I thought!" The actual video is way more balanced. Why not call it "Humane AI Pin: Pretty Bad" or something? But the worst ...? There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed. MKBHD is a millionaire... why clickbait? People are like "Honest reviews are important"... yeah, exactly and…

>There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed.

Genuine question: Are there?

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by pas »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #35
semireg wrote: post #9

The Humane couple were interviewed on “How I Built This” last month. The interview has the “I worked at Apple” vibe because both husband and wife did work at Apple. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-...

Oh man this whole worked at Apple vibe is so off putting. I am sure he is very talented but somehow VCs think working at a company = being able to make a similar company which is absolutely false.

similar in some superficial way? sure, especially with enough VC money to burn.

Theranos' Holmes also successfully copied the plain black turtleneck part.

VCs got bamboozled into this whole unicorn hunt during the big SaaS boom (when everything was the Uber of some sector), but the low hanging fruits are mostly gone.

But it's their (mostly the limited partners') money, and there's usually enough fools to offload stuff so that even the clueless funds survive a decade.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by antoniojtorres »

rickdeckard wrote: post #139
paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

I do wonder what would have happened if Humane would have launched the product as an invitation-only beta with a different pricing-scheme. The hardware is good enough to test it. Power-consumption, projector and voice-cloud-voice latency is too high. But that's probably all forgivable if it's a "public beta" with the clear statement that this is not a final mass-product... I think reviews would have been much better…

That’s an interesting thought, I think it certainly would’ve helped if they took a more “we build it as we go if you believe in the vision” approach. Reminds me of tesla and it’s approach, though that’s a pretty polarizing example.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by inatreecrown2 »

capybara_2020 wrote: post #54

Curious article. But I wonder if the problem lies elsewhere. The tweet caught my attention. The author seems to be using outrage and dramatic words to get engagement. Based on this article and the views the tweet got, it looks like it is working. The curious thing is that there is a reply from MKBHD in the thread and the tweet author highlights how MKBHD used a more dramatic title on Youtube and that is the authors g…

sure looks like it.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by tailspin2019 »

paxys wrote: post #55
throwaway5959 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thing is, we should defend MKBHD. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did his job.

Defend him from what exactly? There was literally no controversy until people started defending him from the controversy. The only person who won here is Daniel Vassallo, whose low effort post went viral because people kept sharing it to show how stupid it was, thus drawing more eyeballs to his $400 "I will teach you how to be a successful entrepreneur" course on X (because of course he has one).

> thus drawing more eyeballs to his $400 "I will teach you how to be a successful entrepreneur" course on X (because of course he has one).

Just a voice in support of Daniel here as this is a bit of a mischaracterisation.

He’s a really nice, gentle guy, who runs a small online community called Small Bets which I would characterise as the opposite of a “I will teach you to be rich” course. (I’m a satisfied paid member).

I don’t have an opinion on his tweet but both he and MKBHD are equally entitled to share their (strong) opinions on things.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by youssefabdelm »

hoerensagen wrote: post #142
youssefabdelm wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is clickbait. And people who think the product is shitty seem numb to that point because they're like "yeah it is shitty, just like I thought!" The actual video is way more balanced. Why not call it "Humane AI Pin: Pretty Bad" or something? But the worst ...? There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed. MKBHD is a millionaire... why clickbait? People are like "Honest reviews are important"... yeah, exactly and…

>There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed. Genuine question: Are there?

anything old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5bdedDPPs

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by tailspin2019 »

kumarm wrote: post #112
paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

People underestimate the financial gains involved (If $ is all one aspires for) in intentional bad takes like that one guy on social media. Glad you pointed it out and his crappy course.

You could apply that exact same argument to MKBHD’s slightly clickbait title of his video.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by TillE »

youssefabdelm wrote: post #147
hoerensagen wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>There are waaay shittier products he's reviewed. Genuine question: Are there?

anything old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5bdedDPPs

> This has been a really great webcam so far

That's your candidate for "worst ever"?

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by janalsncm »

I look at the company Humane which has raised $230 million and I think, maybe some of the people who say we’re in a bubble have a point.

I have a ChatGPT pro subscription, I do machine learning professionally, and I am pretty bullish on the long term benefits of automating a lot of things we waste our time on now. But that is a lot of money for a company which doesn’t seem to deserve it. VCs should be putting money into AI research to build the next DeepMind.

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