The sad thing is that even good channel are driven to do this bullshit because people do really watch those more often. How can we be such a brainless hive mind…
E.g. Marques Brownlee actually does do decent reviews.
That’s the way consumer reviews have always worked. Short of a few exceptions, most professional reviews for any hardware are impressions. If it took 6 months to review a washing machine, it would take a lot of people to keep up. Same with phones, same with video games. It’s nice when someone can give a long term review, but if every phone he reviewed took 6 months to review, he’d have 1-2 videos a year.
phones gets updates over months which enhance or worsens the experience of the device
eg pixel 6 got worse with updates and it didn’t even get updated for 2-3 months I think and various poco phones had bad motherboard issues which only showed up after a few months
in fact, it was common for pixel series to get widespread hardware issues like green screen on pixel 2, screen not placed evenly on pixel 5 and more, even though it got good “reviews” on YouTube because they were impressions
users buy based on reviews thinking the device is good but that is just an impression
and coming to the last line, why do you need to be bombarded with review videos?
its ok if we get 1-2 device review
If you are wanting reviews to take 6 months, there won’t be any reviews of the phone until half way through their sales cycle. I agree things change over time. I have a Pixel 5 and on release it had horrible brightness sensing problems thanks to the under screen brightness sensor, and that got a lot better after a couple of months. But it is unrealistic to expect people to wait 6 months to see if a phone might be good. That was doubley true when most phones only had 2 years of support tops.
It’s a little better now, but if you aren’t buying a phone when it first hits the market you are shaving time off the life of the phone, if you are like me and camp on a phone for years. Heck, for a long time cell phone carriers were selling phones who’s EOL had already come, it was bad.
The sad thing is that even good channel are driven to do this bullshit because people do really watch those more often. How can we be such a brainless hive mind…
E.g. Marques Brownlee actually does do decent reviews.
had me until the last line
marques only does impressions and doesn’t do reviews
the only review he has done is the iPhone 13 pro 6 months later
every other video is made with 2-3 weeks of usage(he gets device a few weeks before launch and uses beta version of software to make “reviews”)
That’s the way consumer reviews have always worked. Short of a few exceptions, most professional reviews for any hardware are impressions. If it took 6 months to review a washing machine, it would take a lot of people to keep up. Same with phones, same with video games. It’s nice when someone can give a long term review, but if every phone he reviewed took 6 months to review, he’d have 1-2 videos a year.
phones gets updates over months which enhance or worsens the experience of the device
eg pixel 6 got worse with updates and it didn’t even get updated for 2-3 months I think and various poco phones had bad motherboard issues which only showed up after a few months
in fact, it was common for pixel series to get widespread hardware issues like green screen on pixel 2, screen not placed evenly on pixel 5 and more, even though it got good “reviews” on YouTube because they were impressions
users buy based on reviews thinking the device is good but that is just an impression
and coming to the last line, why do you need to be bombarded with review videos?
its ok if we get 1-2 device review
If you are wanting reviews to take 6 months, there won’t be any reviews of the phone until half way through their sales cycle. I agree things change over time. I have a Pixel 5 and on release it had horrible brightness sensing problems thanks to the under screen brightness sensor, and that got a lot better after a couple of months. But it is unrealistic to expect people to wait 6 months to see if a phone might be good. That was doubley true when most phones only had 2 years of support tops.
It’s a little better now, but if you aren’t buying a phone when it first hits the market you are shaving time off the life of the phone, if you are like me and camp on a phone for years. Heck, for a long time cell phone carriers were selling phones who’s EOL had already come, it was bad.