Are tech reviews UNETHICAL?
Are tech reviews UNETHICAL?
Business bros are accusing reviewer Marques Brownlee of “heartlessly” destroying companies following his video on the Humane AI Pin. Is that a fair assessment?
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Linus IS unethical.
What makes those type of shitty companies angry is that the guy has huge amounts of integrity, he is not a sell out and they can't do anything about it, and the guy talks like a consumer and as a consumer the companies are just completely disarmed, the society needs people like him to stop people from buying craps that we don't need!!
Bruh, unethical is doing wrong reviews and dot not turn back prototype samples. Get out of here.
Well if you won't to get technical. Ethics should be in tech reviews no matter what. But it's the internet good luck. I say there are no Ethics if there were any to being with on the internet.
I mean you hear people saying “Bob the influencer has 50 gazillion subscribers, he has to be careful with what he puts out.” Here’s the thing, specifically with tech, most channels are just enthusiasts like the rest of us. They’re not engineers, manufacturers or programmers (present channel excluded😂). It’s just someone’s opinion and while that opinion does have some weight the consumer will ultimately decide what they drop their hard earned money on, of course I may be giving consumers too much credit. But…the manufacturers have to be ready for the potential of being dragged across the coals if they drop a half baked beta product.
Unbox Therapy is already a sellout, we dont want that for MKBHD
“Strong, diverse, independent media”
Trudeau won’t like that transparency 💀
Giving good fair criticism reviews people get annoyed then other negative narratives or customers too into it then think for themselves and differences to add to a product/use cases for them. Other people's experiences lining up similarly close of timing. Because viewers don't want to save their butts/some companies need fair feedback and unfortunate if returns/refunds happen to them because the product needs work.
They need to understand what the product is, not buy garbage products they see on Instagram or elsewhere and can't tell the difference but won't complain.
But a tech reviewer calls out the use of not of it and oh it's bad. I mean reviewers on YouTube that are genuine save people the money and thoroughly test them.
Some people are just stupid viewers/customers.
Who would do such stupidity😷
Above all else, a reviewer should be honest. So all of those detractors are just tiresome tech industry shills.
Reviewer kills company’s attempt to ride the AI hype train. The horror.
Let's take it a step even further. Find the publications/people that said that the review was "borderline unethical" and make sure that whatever info comes from them in the future will NOT affect you in anyway. Now you know their eithics and you know that it's not on the best interest of the consumer, they are actively an enemy to the consumer. Such flawed twisted logics are not OK, let's not normalize them.
People know the Business and Ethics do not mix.
How the hell are product reviews in any way related to ethics
Bad reviews don’t kill companies. Auctioning off their best test sample does.
WTF. If it's an honest review, it's not the fault of the reviewer. If the product is shit, don't release it. To release a beta version is stupid, to release a beta and expect a pass is stupider.
Your channel can never be MBKHD
Bad products kill companies 👌🏻👌🏻
Except he did not trat the product properly at all before he said people shouldnt buy it. Humane ai has no practical use at all a wager cooling block for the 3090 has a purpose because the 3090 get really really hot. Just because people are too stupid to trat it and linus is too greedy and but 400$ of work over an acual propper professinal review. Ans by the looks of it nothing has really changed i mea they got a whole lab and still somehow manage to post bad reviwes
That thing should be an app, not a landfill generating toy.
What is your obsession with drinking liquid? I do three hours of classes and don't feel the need to drink.
Yeah but there are also good products getting bad press from majority of reviewers in favour of more popular brand. Like samsung and apple. And same problem found in those products are somehow ok if it's samsung and apple. Remember overheating due to 888 and 8 gen 1?
Samsung it could be hot.
Other brands….. IT'S OVERHEATING LIKE A DYING STAR IT'S UNUSABLE AS FVCK AND THE SOFTWARE IS SO BAD THAT IT'S ACTUALLY FASTER THAN SAMSUNG'S OS BUT IT'S BAD BECAUSE I SAY SO.
Go figure lmao
You could argue holding a 700 dollar device hostage with a 24 dollar subscription is unethical…
So the thumbnail is a little fucked up, y’all digging to much into it. He wasn’t even the first person to review the product. He black and he has a massive following. So the global usual.
Yalls thumbnail destroying MB is unethical. You’re doing the same thing.
The people making these comments have their money in these companies stocks!! They're pained that they're losing money
Literally all they had to do if they wanted to avoid this side of it was say "This is gen one, it's really only made for the early adopters who will help this grow before the general population gets it" and then make a limited number.
It's pretty much the argument that Linus makes about the Intel Arc.
I think it's a stupid product but if they're so focused on what's to come they should REALLY run with that, because my pixel 4 can do all it can do with Google lens and then I also have a regular phone. There's nothing the AI pins can do that current phones can't.
People want politicians to tell the truth….and they can’t accept the truth from a YouTube review. Lol
I think companies should always contract this YouTubers to help them manufacture good products before release to the public
humane AI pin is a SCAM.Time will Tell.
Also: um. Not every reviewer has to like everything. I watched his review it was kinda correct. EEdit: to be clear I trust a reviewer MORE if not 100% of his reviews are completely sunshine hunky dory hype trains. That's not what reviewing is. Reviewing means HONEST (or as much as you can be) feedback.
“For the sake of creating new products” appeasement logic has no existence when you sell that product to others as is.
What does it mean that "Apple explicitly excludes us from any kind of early access or insider information on their products"? They don't send products for review before the launch? They forbid you from even reviewing just after launch?
MKBHD is once again proving why he's arguably the best tech reviewer on YouTube and has been for 12 years. He has said many things about products that I love that I completely disagree with but I don't care because that's his job.
Mkbhd always protecting giants like apple and Samsung with horrible products and looks at them with lowest expectations possible. but reviews small companies too harshly. That’s the hypocrisy.
Example: apple iphone 13 to 15 almost identical, companies update almost nothing and get praised!!! WTF, once apple was a pinnacle of innovation now they follow and wait and see what profits more. And you defend that.
Same goes for intel and nvidia in cpu and gpu. Lets overclock same product to get 2% more wow its new product cool?
For you linus your videos are 40 min long with 20 min advertisements and you forgot your audience,
This clip’s thumbnail is a bit scummy imo. I would not be thrilled at it if I was Marques…it suggests he is unethical. I think it would be fine if there was a question mark after the word “UNETHICAL” splashed over his eyes.
Lol! If you had the AI pin you'd find a way to pull it apart before you get it out of the box. At some point you'd say "Does it run Crisis tho", them play cyberpunk on it at one frame a minute until it catches fire. Then the worst part, you'd repair it and analyse the traffic with wireshark.
LInus completely fair except when it comes to his dogshit sponsors (who he won't say shit about)
No
Is incredible all the fuzz to Marques for just say the truth.
Idk man, if you don’t want people to give your product a review maybe don’t make a shit product
This just shows that MKHB is of the people. He rather give us an honest review than to suck up to a tech company
All the backlash is coming from Twitter. So why does it matter?
So calligraphy out a company for s**t products is unethical? Who comes up with this stuff😂😂
Most tech companies takes undue advantage of tech lovers, imagine Apple selling mac mouse case for $40
I would also add that negative reviews are generally good. There's simply nothing to be disappointed about. If, say Linus, demands 12+ hours of battery time and calls a computer crap because of sub 8 hour of battery life. I still might buy it for various reasons and discover that MY expectation of 6 hours of battery is there and beyond. I expected issues and found none and will talk very fondly of the product.
I mean I definitely understand reviewers but also know that there's return policies to return products for your full refund with a receipt in most places so I don't really know how people who do reviews are saving us money maybe time but honestly return policies are the best because you get to see if you actually want the product yourself what happened to second opinion is kind of good too I guess
All i heard is listen to us more for our own opinion.