Welcome to another creator chat on the SGGQA podcast channel. An occasional series of interviews, where we get to hear from folks making cool things on the internet.
There’s something so surreal about producing these interviews. Whenever I listen to podcasts, I have a running conversation playing out in my head with the podcast hosts. Those times I’ve been a guest on All About Android, there’s always a moment when it hits me.
What makes for a better portrait photo? Google’s incredible camera software? LG’s brute force hardware? Which camera cuts around hair better? Which company delivers the more eye-pleasing background blur? Let’s FIGHT!
It wasn’t that long ago that I started using the Focals. When crazy situations happen, it’s an incredible opportunity to see what gadgets live up to the marketing, and which gadgets fail.
Protests against Social Distancing are HORRIFICALLY astro-turfed! ESRB is labeling games with lootboxes in the ratings! Google might make their own chips for future Pixels! Huawei is using DSLRs AGAIN for “sample photos”. Samsung is pulling the “green tint” update for the Galaxy S20. We’ve got more fun internet freebies on the way!
And here are my thoughts on the new iPhone SE 2020 (before i get my hands on it)!
GET IT DONE! The V60 is THE productivity phone of 2020! Don’t use it like a NOOB! Get your bang for buck like a PRO! The REAL DEAL! Pro tips for the LG Dual Screen!
1More has been one of the more exciting audio brands to cover over the last couple years. Building a reputation for premium build, high quality audio, and colorful tuning. Lately this company has aggressively included some of the more popular “techie” features in their products. When this attention is focused on a portable speaker, the results are unsurprising great!
It’s worth checking in periodically. As my channel evolves and shifts over time, it seems some folks might miss what the goal is here.
To begin, I believe disclosing explicit bias is critical to fair reviewing. No human reviewer is a truly objective machine. There is no such thing as objectivity. Full stop.
I believe a review needs context. If we’re not sure where a reviewer is coming from, then we lack a critical perspective to understand why a reviewer might grade certain aspects of a phone the way they do.
I laid my cards on the table a couple years back, and I’m happy that basically everything I talked about in my “BIAS” video still pretty much holds true today.
Now you know where I’m coming from, and what I value.
Since then however, this conversation has grown more concerning. The issues I talk about at the tail end of that video seem to be getting worse, not better. Over 2019, a major focus for my channel has been to point out media literacy issues which I believe contribute to some disturbing trends in consumer electronics.
Today we find ourselves in a serious and unique situation. Gadgets and electronics are being stressed like never before. How someone spends their gadget money has never been more important.
I naturally have a bit of a contrarian streak, and I enjoy stirring the pot for fun debates. The goal of my channel has never been, and will never be, to trash popular devices simply because they are popular. I’m not praising “less popular” phones just to throw a thumb in the eye of the “cool kids”.
