Agree with you re: think for yourselves.
Two things:
1. He's held / seen the phone live, I buy online so won't get a chance to before I decide.
2. He's also held hundreds (thousands?) of phones which I haven't.
While he does have preferences that differ from mine, his perspective is still interesting.
>what qualifies them?
19.3m subscribers on yt
Re:Google Pixel 9 Pro
by saberience on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:06AM
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Joe Rogan has a lot more subscribers and listeners than this guy, does it mean I should listen to his opinions?
Valuing someone by reach makes no sense at all. Most professors at MIT have no social media reach at all, I still value their opinions extremely highly.
In fact, valuing someone's opinion purely based on the size of their megaphone is partly why we're the world is in such a bad state politically (and in other ways) these days. E.g. people listening to social media influencers opinions on vaccines.
I think this is a fair take. The parent comment shouldn't have added subscriber count as one the qualifications. But for MKBHD's qualification, simply use point number 2.
If we were getting opinions on the latest PhD paper on attention mechanisms than I’d trust someone with a PhD versus a random person, but for getting opinions on the new Google phone? Think for yourself.