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Dear Samsung and Google,
This is a bad idea.
Trying to make a copycat Mixed Reality headset to compete against the Vision Pro is a bad idea.
Augmented reality could be so much more, but we need to cover the basics first.
Be the Anti-Apple.
Love,
Juan
Continue reading “Dear Google and Samsung: Copying Apple Vision Pro is a DUMB Move…”
Apple needs to be held to the standard they advertise for themselves. When they slip, they should be criticized harder than any other consumer tech brand operating today. When they make mistakes, they deliver those mistakes at a scale no other brand can approach.
The potential for consumer harm from an Apple mistake is an order of magnitude higher than any other competitor, and Apple has a clear track record of trying to break standards to sell proprietary solutions for their own benefit.
AirTags are a really cool idea. Continue reading “We ALL Suffer When Apple Products DON’T “Just Work””
Apple Vision Pro reaction.
I’m disappointed. There are FEW products which have been hyped as hard (for as long) as Apple’s VR/AR headset. What Apple revealed at WWDC was underwhelming…
Let’s chat… Continue reading “Apple Vision Pro: Years of Hype for an Expensive Dev Kit…”
This post was originally published in my Production Diary on Patreon.com/SomeGadgetGuy. Many thanks to the Patrons supporting production on this blog!
It’s finally happened. My wife has been bullied by an iPhone owner. One of Lex’s best friend’s Mom attacked her over text messages. Our community will be torn apart.
Naw. It wasn’t that dramatic. Marie and I are having a nice little chuckle. We’re still going to let Lex play with their son. It’s all good.
It’s an interesting situation, and a complicated social dynamic. It showcases perfectly how Apple marketing “encourages” iPhone owners to act like missionaries. Continue reading “When iPhone Parents Bully Android Parents…”
Here’s the deal. I WANT people to like the gadgets they buy. I think it’s the saddest feeling in the world to put time and money towards a gadget which later turns out to be a poor fit for your needs. That’s why I think it’s so critical that reviewers get the details right, and why we need more nuance in tech conversations.
That said, we still need to balance our commentary and reviewing against the largest corporations, with the biggest marketing budgets, making the boldest claims.
My criticisms of a TRILLION dollar corporation have little to do with the people who enjoy that company’s products. If I criticize Apple, I’m criticizing APPLE. My frustrations with Apple run high because Apple business moves effect Apple consumers.
YOU are not Apple (unless somehow Tim Cook found his way to reading this, then Hello Mr. Cook!)
Now, that said, it is nice Apple finally figured out that we want larger batteries in our phones. Continue reading “120Hz iPhone ProMotion AND Better Battery! Praising Apple for the bare minimum…”
I’m not going to buy the iPhone 13.
I won’t be reviewing the iPhone 13.
If you’re curious why, let’s chat.
A camera isn’t the same thing for every consumer.
Even though standalone cameras have become less popular for consumer point and shoot use, we still see an incredible variety of hardware and form-factors. There is no universal agreement on what a camera “is”. People still have entirely unique needs where those differences matter to the individual.
This isn’t just some oblique idea of specialty or “pro” use. At a basic level, someone’s specific needs will be better fulfilled by a tool designed for those needs.
Yet in the world of smartphone camera reviewing, we crouch a significant portion of the conversation behind some idea of “The Avuraj CunZoomer™”. We build phone camera conversations around a fallacy that there is some common or objective agreement on what a camera SHOULD be.
It’s only at the most regressively basic level that we might find some agreement.
You should be able to push a button that results in an image being captured.
Beyond that, cameras should specialize. We should see different pros and cons. That’s what makes cameras exciting. Continue reading “How techies get phone camera reviews wrong…”
We love phone showdowns. People cheer their “team”. We get emotionally invested in the products we buy and use.
It’s surprisingly difficult to properly divide up phones into categories where those comparisons are fair. It’s casually easy to look at a landscape of phones under $500 and pick a few for a fight. If you’ve followed my videos and reviews, you know I really like to get more specific about what KIND of device a phone might be.
I don’t think price is the decider as much as functionality or the target consumer demographic.
We should compare “communicator” phones against other communicator phones. Content creation phones should be compared against other creator phones. Gaming phones should be compared against gaming phones (and the Nintendo Switch).
With all that said, allow me to be a hypocrite as I purposely select two phones to fight based on price! Continue reading “Google Pixel 5A vs iPhone SE: What real competition looks like!”