Re:Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help
by brookst on Sunday January 29, 2023 @01:01PM
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Yes, and most pundits can’t think about target markets. How often have you read a review of a luxury car / computer / resort from someone who works hard to make $50k/year, and their complaint is that the product is too expensive?
We all have different financial situations. Tell me what’s good and bad about a product and let me decide if it’s “worth it” for the price point.
Pundits criticize, that's what they do. It's impossible for anything to ever be "perfect". If a product is simple then it can be criticized for not having enough features, if it's full of features it can be criticized for not being simple enough. And when everything's pretty much fine, the standard criticism is "the new version hasn't changed/improved enough". (While when lots of things change/improve, it becomes "but is it too different/incompatible for people used to the old version?!")
The job of a pundit isn't to try to provide any kind of objective or even consistent truth. It's just to provide talking points than turn into headlines that drive clicks.
The pundits, as people, absolutely know better. But that's not their job as a paid pundit. Their job is to drive clicks and comments and engagement.