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I can’t stand this guy anymore. Anyone got a TLDR so I can skip giving him a view?
Yeah, he’s become a total Apple shill
No he’s fucking not. He’s always liked Apple, just didn’t really get into them until the 5S. Been watching him since 2014, and even then he still said recently on the waveform podcast he prefers Android.
Plenty of things to critique Marques over. This ain’t one.
I never hear him criticising Apple and everytime a new iPhone comes out he’s gushing. Yet iPhone sucks next to Android. I’d take a budget Android over iPhone any day.
That’s your opinion.
I don’t really give a damn about the Apple vs Android argument anymore. I was there when the first iPhone came out in 2007 and I’m over it. This flame war has gotten old. There’s pros and cons to each platform.
That being said, he has critiqued Apple many times in the past for specific things. Even said the dynamic island felt gimmicky at times and wasn’t sure how well it would hold up. Also shat on the Touchbar for being useless.
So he has critiqued Apple. But let’s be real, what the fuck are you seriously going to critique on a modern iPhone? The modern smartphone has evolved so much that what else is there to add beside new hardware and sometimes gimmicky technology? You’d be hard pressed to find a “bad” phone now. I don’t get excited for iPhones anymore. Not because they’re bad. And yes you can critique the small things. But at the end of the day, an iPhone…is an iPhone. It’s not amazing or revolutionary anymore. There’s nothing else to implement. These phones are what we dreamed of back in 2010. Just all fucking screen and nothing else. Basically, the iPhone just “is”. And oh hey, here’s a bigger battery this year. Cool.
You don’t hear him criticising them because he got shadowbanned for doing it once. There were a couple reviews where he mentioned having to buy the devices himself.
Got a source for this? Pretty avid MKBHD watcher and I’ve never heard of this happen to him.
As I said, there was a period when he kept saying. “I had to buy this myself” the source is his videos. Ask A.I. to squirrel them out.
There was another guy that broke down the experience of falling out of favour with Apple and I can’t for the life of me find
My bigger issue with him is he doesn’t actually review phones. He just holds them and does dramatic shots, which in and of itself is fine, Mr Mobile does the same thing, but that’s all he does.
All his videos are like watching the portfolio of a student videographer. Excellent camera work, with no actual real content.
I remember a few years ago I watched him talk about how he would carry two phones for daily driving; An iPhone for taking photos and an Android for everything else, which just made my eyes roll. I get why for his career plus he has access to phones anyway, but I also feel like his expectations of a smartphone is far removed from an average consumer. Not that people don’t care about cameras - they do, but having the best camera is enough to be contender for flagship of the year for him. Is it really more important than the OS or the price?
Linus has said something similar. Having a good and quick camera is important to a lot of people.
I think you’d be surprised at how many people really obsess over having the best camera in their phone. Apple wouldn’t be spending the majority of their damn conferences talking about it now for nothing.
I can also confirm this as I have family that is majority from Cali. All they do is take thousands of fucking photos on their iPhones and if my Mom upgrades, it’s usually because it “gets slow” or she wants the better camera.
As a nerd it’s a shame, because if I could have a smartphone with no front facing camera and a shitty rear one, I would. But I’m in a minority.
Part of the issue, I think, is that we’re at a point in smartphones where improvements from the previous model are only really small incremental tweaks. A few Hz more refresh rate, a few more pixels on one of the cameras, a slightly different curve on the bezel… there isn’t a lot of dramatic innovation to report on most of the time.
That’s why I was so disappointed with Google’s Jedi thing. I wish they stuck with that.
But everyone has different wants and needs. For him all he cares about is that it doesn’t stutter and the camera is good. There’s lots of technical reviewers who care more about the camera and some that don’t care about the camera at all. Think of reviewers like Lemmy. There’s an instance for everyone.
In fairness I have two phones. An iPhone and an Android.
But I need an iPhone, well I need it’s depth sensor, the rest of it I don’t care about and I don’t actually have a sim in it.
The Android I use for daily driving.
So I get his point but at the same time I bought my iPhone second hand with a cracked screen because I only needed the depth sensor.
What’s the depth sensor for in your case? Just curious.
hmm, I would probably value camera quality above anything else too, that and price.
He does review them at least from what I’ve seen recently…but yeah, he has been a lot more hands off over the last two years or so. I’m not sure what’s happened. He used to be the king of tech back in 2017-2018. I started watching him in 2014, as a teen. For a long time people loved him and he was great, but more and more people now seem to dislike him. To an extent I get it. Something has changed in his content over the last two to three years I think.
He was the victim of his own success. Everyone copied his style and level of polish and now he’s not so unique or special
Because he’s basically a glorified advert. He screws up basic product specs in the majority of his reviews. He’s in the pocket of major tech companies and Tesla. I watched him drool over Elon for years, while his Tesla spent more time on a tow truck than it did the road.
He’s a corporate shill, who’s gone full form over function.
I’m saying he doesn’t review the phone, at all.
Showing a macro lens image of the phone with some water droplets on it does not constitute a review.
But he does, he goes through the specs, he talks about how he’s found the performance to be, including camera and speakers. Is that not a review?
Tech people love to gatekeep. His videos aren’t for you, so what? Move on. I happen to enjoy them, but I’m not going to buy something just because he reviews it. I’ll find a more technical reviewer if I’m interested. I don’t watch every gamers nexus video because I just don’t care about deep specs about every product. Just the ones I’m interested in.
Yes, he’s kind of settled into a track in a way. I do think MrMobile does a slightly better job but for in depth reviews Juan Bagnell is very good.
I’m glad he prefers Android but come Apple season he’s going to be gushing all over the new iPhone’s. I don’t hear much criticism of iPhone’s from him, even though they are way behind Android. Even budget Android phones are better than iPhone.
That’s a straight garbage take. You have an incredibly biased view of what better is. Better for you maybe, not better for everyone. Budget Android phones don’t get updated, and you can buy last years iPhone and outperform new android phones.
I mean it depends on what you call budget
for the price of the cheapest iPhone se, you can get nothing phone or pixel, Samsung a something with 4,5 years of updates
but if you really go budget, you still get 2-3 years of updates, for the price of a second gen iPhone se(2020) which would also get 2-3 years of updates
That’s a garbage take too, buy a Samsung budget A series, they get updated, and they cost half of last year’s iPhones too.
A series isn’t on their announcement https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-galaxy-os-upgrade-one-ui-android-unpacked-2022/ from what I’ve found it’s inconsistent. Apple has been updating for 50% longer than even Samsung.
The latest A series is totally on the 4 year upgrade path, with 5 years of security updates, just about all their phones are now. My A52s is probably one of the last phones with the 3/4 year upgrade path.
Lol we get it man, you don’t like Apple. Move on.
Juan is really good and he does his best to debunk trending opinions. But because he’s a breath of fresh air, he doesn’t seem to get many review units and so he rarely reviews upcoming tech.
How so?
See replies above
Thanks.
This is literally like the meme I just posted where it basically said, you can appreciate something and not agree with it. You think Apple shill because he has to play by their rules, yet objectively speaking, he’s always saying things like “incremental update” and “they say blah, but I haven’t seen that yet”. When it comes to Apple, it’s very read between the lines.
The secondary cover screen is pretty cool, don’t get me wrong. And let’s be real, modern flip phones LOOK fucking cool. But…from a user perspective, is there anything a flip phone can do that your average phone CAN’T do? Besides flipping?
Yes - fit perfectly in a woman’s size pocket.
My girlfriend said that and then put the phone in her purse anyway, and then can’t find it when it rings.
Fine but there are plenty of us that refuse to carry a purse. Folding phones are helping with that.
There’s no revolutionary advantages. They’re a bit easier to toss in your pocket and the outer screen’s limited functionality seems to be a good way to do things like check the time, check notifications, turn on/off smart devices, or switch songs without having to open the phone and potentially falling down an instagram/reddit/lemmy rabbit hole
I have a fold 4 which I love. Was thinking about switching to the flip so I went to check one out. All the reasons you listed where the things drawing me to it until I remembered I wear a smart watch and do all that already without taking my phone out. Then it became useless to me. The only benefit would be the small form factor when in my pocket but like I said, I have a fold, big phone in my pocket doesn’t really bother me. And the biggest thing in would miss is being able to set my phone down half folded and watch videos on the vertical half. A feature I didn’t think I would use but I do all the time.
Easily frame and take photos with the main camera.
I had a Z Flip for a while but replaced it as the cameras were a deal killer. For me personally I liked how small it was in my pocket. I know it’s a small thing but that was my favorite part. When I replaced it, I gave it to my mom, who actually wears it around her neck with a lanyard. Sure, you can do that with a normal phone if you’re feeling adventurous. The benefits are definitely niche though.
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I agree. Nothing unique in his videos at all now
I’ll have a flip phone again… One day…
Why in the hell would I want to flip my phone
So you can end all phone calls like this
This hasn’t aged well:
I had a Motorola MPx200 back in the day, and it was my only flip phone in all my years of having mobile phones. I have to say it was really nice doing the flipping. There’s something about the tactility and the chunky hinge doing the snapping.
Not sure where I read it, but apparently they are mostly bought by women because the flip phones are more practical when you have tiny or nonexistent pockets and a small purse.
My wife can’t wait for these to become affordable (sub $500). She is still pissed off that mid-range small phones disappeared 3-4 years ago to be replaced by 6" phablets.
This is literally me rn, Cant find decent small phone with reasonable price.
This might turn in to something worthwhile: https://smallandroidphone.com/
5.4”-ish 1080p OLED display (60hz ok)
That is considered small??
Depending on bezels and ratio, it could be smaller than your 4.7 inch Nexus 4 for example
mid-range small phones disappeared 3-4 years ago to be replaced by 6" phablets.
mjd-rangesmall phones disappeared 3-4 years ago to be replaced by 6" phablets.FTFY
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