Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@setoki2838 says : Its not like they had it coming anyways...>> <<@RohitNaik says : MKBHD reviews MKBHD>> <<@Cromie45 says : I found your channel after your feature in YT rewind. I sincerely appreciate your brutal honesty with the products your review as it has navigated me away from shoddy craftsmanship or becoming a paid beta tester for the new tech niches. Bad products most certainly always kill the company, not the feedback it receives.>> <<@FoodInDaHood says : While it's a complex issue, here are some key points that maybe should be to considered: 1. **Honesty and Transparency**: As tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee points out, honesty in reviews is crucial. Visitors expect informative and balanced reviews, even if they highlight flaws or negative aspects of a product. Being transparent about both strengths and weaknesses helps build trust with the audience. 2. **Impact on Companies**: Negative reviews alone don't necessarily cause companies to fail. If that were the case, certain tech companies (especially those producing laptops, monitors, and graphics cards) would have gone out of business long ago. Stocks don't crash solely due to bad reviews. 3. **Differentiating Factors**: There's a distinction between being dismissive of a product based on who made it (which is unfair) and giving a low rating because the product genuinely lacks quality. Constructive criticism can drive improvement, while clickbait titles or overly dramatic reviews don't necessarily harm companies. 4. **Responsibility**: Reviewers have a responsibility to provide accurate information, but they aren't responsible for a product's success or failure. Companies should focus on improving their offerings rather than blaming reviewers. In summary, bad reviews alone won't necessarily kill a company. Instead, companies should use feedback to enhance their products and maintain transparency with consumers. Additionally, said companies should work with the reviewers to ensure the products they come up with do meet the average persons requirement. No way to please all of the people all of the time.>> <<@beowulfschmidt6031 says : This "controversy" is what brought me here to subscribe. Well done.>> <<@TONHEAD7 says : That saddens me a lot, I always tend to buy a smaller phone, now on Pixel 4a (not 5g) and I don't know what is the next phone I would buy>> <<@Avatar1946 says : No, sub par or just plain bad products kill companies. Re: X-Files.......the truth is out there !>> <<@imnugget8085 says : Bad product kills companies 😂 bad review happen cause bad product>> <<@Aguvika says : People want the truth from politicians but can’t accept truth from a tech YouTuber lol>> <<@m2drive839 says : They wanted you to break it gently.😋>> <<@danielngandu8656 says : Honest reviews are hard to come by, and you also get a lot of review platforms/ sites that are paid to filter out bad reviews so it's at least nice to know that with things like products we can get honest reviews!>> <<@prck4630 says : Honest reviews are needed- continue doing what you do>> <<@Potus991 says : Somebody please review his black color shoe 😂>> <<@Potus991 says : Don't freakin review for start up company, you killing them not supporting them.>> <<@zayxhex6006 says : Video reviews are better than comments reviews, which forces companies to improve their products or die in the process, offer and demand, capitalism is a btch, even for companies that make billions of dollars>> <<@cristianebrahimovich9080 says : My Sister when they want to buy something i tell them wait let me check first. And i watch reviews and tell them whether its good or bad.>> <<@garrettwhite3922 says : Only if you also accept that bad products cause bad reviews>> <<@Hildeman74 says : Greatly appreciate the integrity of your reviews. Keep it up!>> <<@MaDFroG88 says : Well Samsung keeps releasing Galaxy S series with Exynos chips no matter the negative reviews 😡>> <<@Donzorro849 says : You killed Fisker and got several hundreds to get fired… the reason why many car reviewers are following a more professional semi-objective format>> <<@lubangajames8350 says : @Marques Brownlee the thing is you the giant say in tech industry so your say to us matters alot, so your reviews have power.>> <<@nycarpenter says : Bad products and piss poor customer service kill a company. You guys, just give a heads up to your viewers.>> <<@antonioduverge3558 says : It’s impossible to please everyone, you don’t have to be smart but you at least should have a little common sense, his reviews makes the products better and avoid people buying bad products, how on earth can that be bad, if a company doesn’t want to go bankrupt design better products, that’s it!>> <<@kristijangrgic9841 says : I love recensions, they save you from buying crap products>> <<@wellnesswithsinelia says : most companies paid for good reviews to overpower bad reviews there for bad cannot hurt their company. Yet a bad review will hurt a small business.>> <<@gt7984 says : Youtuber cancelled for stating facts and being honest. Love Twitter>> <<@yuvrajsingh099 says : Why I think people are becoming sheeps with one getting offended for no reason and other people who got nothing else to do got into it. If you don't want negative review than don't make bad products.>> <<@fiveam8626 says : do youtubers get paid to just sit there and be given products and talk?>> <<@Shaniko says : People over here acting like Marques got the Infinity Gauntlet on tech companies. "Fine, I'll do it myself." 😂😂😂😂 Keep up the good work Marques!>> <<@Andrew-yy4rb says : I don't blame you! LOL>> <<@EternalArrow says : Those products Rabbit and the second one became even worse after todays openai presentation. These are just doesn't make sense at all anymore.>> <<@mangalisoxaba498 says : Peace! Best tech reviewer alive..>> <<@youtubeguy9316 says : Wth you have almost 19 million subscribers>> <<@elisamiller766 says : I don't know if you'll see this but here goes. My dog passed away a couple of weeks ago and it has been pretty hard. We had a very close bond so I am devastated. Anyway for some reason watching your videos gives me a bit of a reprieve. Your reviews are very fair and honest, and there's something calming about the way you explain things. So I don't know.. am I weird? Because I am watching a bunch of tech reviews while I am grieving? well whatever.. your videos are giving me a break from crying so I wanted to thank you for that.>> <<@vincentmarotta9800 says : I think this plays on many factors, all of which is out of EVERYONES' collective control: 1. People respond to negativity. 2. People are easily swayed with presentation, rather than facts. 3. There are many factors which a startup company can control, and public perception can be tailored, but ultimately NOT one of them. With all of that being said: I overall think the blame due to failure falls in the hands of the company selling the product. Honest (non-click baity) reviews hold good and bad companies accountable, especially the multitude of ones which exist solely to scam (which I believe Marques doesn't even bother to review, unless it's somehow gained traction and has nothing to it). As someone who is excited to play with the (admittedly gimmicky) Rabbit R1, I overall think Marques Brownlee is doing a good service for customers by being honest about products. In the case of the Humaine, they CHOSE to create a neat product, but I find it hard to believe it wasn't tested for years before it came out in the state it did. Someone used the product for, let's say, a month, and presented to the company "Hey so I used this thing, and its battery is bad, the facts it gives are sometimes wrong, and here is a list of all the other stuff it does wrong." So faced with this issue, Humaine then looked at what they had, looked at each other, and privately said "Ok yeah these are problems....but we're just going to CHOOSE NOT TO FIX ANY OF THEM ANYWAY!" THAT, I believe, is what kills companies. The inability to reflect HONESTLY on a product, and go through more R&D to solve it in creative and intuitive ways. In the case of my Rabbit R1: For $200, I expect either it will never develop past a certain level of capacity...or someone like Elon Musk or Apple will release a far superior version to it. I totally expect the Rabbit R1 to go the way of Zune. But, that particular disaster of a project has a lot more promise, and I think I can do alot of what Humaine wanted to do, and more. Maybe in the future I'll just get an old jailbreak Android and customize it so it does what Rabbit R1 does, but for right now, I just want to play with Rabbit and see what happens to it. Offtrack: To summarize, don't blame the reviewer for presenting the product (even if they put it under a specific light). Instead, blame the startup company leads, and the product's shortcomings that were left in.>> <<@naminasae6548 says : Define bad review first. Is it the review of a bad product, or it is a bad way of reviewing product? If the case is the later, it's problem>> <<@PeterSedesse says : Fisker lost 90% of it's share price long before your original video came out. Summer 2023, it was at $6/share. A month before your video it was down to $.70 a share. It looks like coincidental timing that your video came out at the same time as their earnings report (which was terrible), and then it dropped from $.70 down to its current sub-dime value. As an interesting aside. The market cap of the entire company is now at $18 million dollars. From my knowledge of youtube ad revenue... with maybe 8 more videos about Fisker, you could actually buy a majority share of the company .>> <<@kookiemoose says : Herd mentality and fandom also can tilt the scale in situations like this.>> <<@nickmandleberg says : That ai pin is absolute trash and clearly a cash grab THANK YOU FOR HONEST REVIEWS>> <<@NickyKnickerson says : Bad reviews destroy businesses all the time. Some of those reviews are deserved, some are not. It's an imperfect system because people are imperfect. People have bad days, they're biased, they're bigoted. People have agendas and investments and friends and they absolutely cannot be relied upon to be impartial or honest. Even if they try really hard. Smart people know this, of course, and read reviews accordingly, that is to say it is simply one persons opinion. And if that person has a reputation for honesty and integrity, like yourself, we give that opinion weight and let it influence our decisions. Especially people on a budget. Does that influence whether a company makes it? Absolutely, it does. That sucks, but it also pushes companies to make good products and it reveals who is afraid to submit their products for review, which is telling in its own right. As long as we can push bad actors out of the product review space then we can all sleep with a clean conscience.>> <<@wishkor1 says : Bro I've only seen a handful of your videos, randomly sprinkled in through my shorts feed, but I've never watched your reviews. I saw a video of this exact video you made, posted by someone else and they were talking about this topic and I wholeheartedly agree. So much so, that I came here to follow and subscribe because I stand with everyone who tells The truth and it's nought out by these corporations>> <<@kuanph says : the bald guy doing the opposite>> <<@kumakumakumachoco says : Honestly I'm not surprised so think you single handedly tanked the company. Some people need to think a little bit more. While I didn't necessarily agree with the Fisker review, my opinion on what makes a car bad is different. Even people watching reviews should form their own opinion on what's important to them>> <<@kima.6611 says : Honest reviews of a poor product is like ripping off a bandaid rather than poor sales for a year or two and a slow death.>> <<@davidvass753 says : I think there are good reviews, bad reviews and fair reviews. In terms of the car video, you said good things about the car and you said bad things about the car, you didn't break down the review in sections and give the car an overall score. You used the negative aspects of the car, to label it as the worst car you reviewed and then used that as the overall title of the video. Which I think was slightly unfair to the company, given the positive things you said about the car. And based on the review I would of considered the car average with improvements needed. But not to the extent the title made out the car to be in being so bad that you shouldn't buy it or drive it. So I think at the level you are and the influence you have, your videos could definitely have an impact on certain companies. And although you have to find the right balance with, "getting clicks and views" I do think some reviews can border on being unfair without proper breakdowns and an overall score.>> <<@andrzej8620 says : Most negative outcome of this situation is, that some YouTubers may be afraid of being honest, not to be suit by companies…>> <<@cmenting says : But companies should be glad that honest reviews are basically a free consult outside of their walls. And also regular consumers have a more informed choice...>> <<@booyaaaaaaa says : Bad products kill companies>> <<@daboiff5723 says : people just don't like to here the truth or are not bold enough to say it but attack others for saying it>> <<@vrontheweb3749 says : A review is a documentation of a product’s user experience. Bad review = bad product. Which circles back to your point that: bad products kill companies, not reviews.>>