People are upset at a product reviewer for reviewing a product.
Classic example of why "Person On Twitter Is Angry" being considered newsworthy, or even faintly noteworthy, is one the worst things that has happened to modern discourse.
MKBHDs for Everything
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#42I really like MKBHD's videos, but he should've picked a different title for the video. Frankly, I feel it did way more damage to him than what he did to Aipin or Fisker, which were already universally panned.
Absolutely! This product is building a NEW CATEGORY, of course it is not going to be perfect on first itteration.
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#43The 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-...
> The interview has the “I worked at Apple” vibe Is this a well-known meme? or just the general vibe of the Apple Store, calling the employees "geniuses", etc
Whenever I was in a meeting with a former Apple employee who wanted to win quickly. Their next sentence always started with “when I was at Apple…” and ended with “Steve” yelling at someone or proclaiming “this better not break or everyone here is fired”
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry but that’s bs. The title of the video is “The worst product I’ve ever reviewed… for now”. That is not a personal attack on someone’s character. And it leaves the door open for the product to improve in the future, which he also suggests in the video. The worst you can say is that it’s clickbait-y but mkbhd doesn’t usually use such extreme titles.
I think you misread. slg was saying that that the Twitter user was attacking MKBHD's character, not that MKBHD was somehow attacking the product's character.
Is that true? From the parent comment: “it is attacking someone's character rather than a product”.
The twitter guy is saying mkbhd is attacking the creator of the product’s character.
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#45The drama tweets are just an ad. You kind of want to find out who "Daniel Vassallo" is, and of course he's selling a subscription.
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#46Having actually watched the video which seems to be rare in this debate there was really nothing bad or misleading about the content. He genuinely reviews the product and shows it working without any editing or magic. It's an exploratory product that just doesn't work that well and as others have said if it had redeeming aspects surely the fanboys would be jumping to the product's defence. The people criticising MKBH…
100% spot on. What I gathered from the review was that the tech itself is really cool but usability was bad (faster to pull out your phone, take a pic and google it vs the image recognition, battery life of 2-4 hrs, etc.) I also found the reviewers tone to be very mild, it's definitely not outrage-driven.
I also applaud the efforts of the aipin folk to try to build something new. They probably raised too much for it to be true but maybe if they fixed the fatal UX flaws they could regain some momentum.
Altogether it's just a bit puzzling why this whole outrage has manifested itself
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#47Was there ever any doubt the product was… frivolous. It was a last minute Hail Mary from a startup and the end of its rope. God bless them for trying, but there should be no surprise here.
$250 million funding from VCs for what should have been a kickstarter device.
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#48I really like MKBHD's videos, but he should've picked a different title for the video. Frankly, I feel it did way more damage to him than what he did to Aipin or Fisker, which were already universally panned.
Absolutely! This product is building a NEW CATEGORY, of course it is not going to be perfect on first itteration.
It also kills any hope in that NEW CATEGORY that makes it really hard for the next one to even try...
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#49This 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 amplifying the other side even more.
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#50I really like MKBHD's videos, but he should've picked a different title for the video. Frankly, I feel it did way more damage to him than what he did to Aipin or Fisker, which were already universally panned.
Absolutely! This product is building a NEW CATEGORY, of course it is not going to be perfect on first itteration.
Products are reviewed based on their current capabilities, not their future potential. Having watched the review video, I don't think any of the points he brought up were unreasonable. It's not expecting perfection, it's just explaining what state the product is in.