No he’s fucking not. He’s always liked Apple, just didn’t really get into them until the 5S. Been watching him since 2014, and even then he still said recently on the waveform podcast he prefers Android.
Plenty of things to critique Marques over. This ain’t one.
I never hear him criticising Apple and everytime a new iPhone comes out he’s gushing. Yet iPhone sucks next to Android. I’d take a budget Android over iPhone any day.
That’s your opinion.
I don’t really give a damn about the Apple vs Android argument anymore. I was there when the first iPhone came out in 2007 and I’m over it. This flame war has gotten old. There’s pros and cons to each platform.
That being said, he has critiqued Apple many times in the past for specific things. Even said the dynamic island felt gimmicky at times and wasn’t sure how well it would hold up. Also shat on the Touchbar for being useless.
So he has critiqued Apple. But let’s be real, what the fuck are you seriously going to critique on a modern iPhone? The modern smartphone has evolved so much that what else is there to add beside new hardware and sometimes gimmicky technology? You’d be hard pressed to find a “bad” phone now. I don’t get excited for iPhones anymore. Not because they’re bad. And yes you can critique the small things. But at the end of the day, an iPhone…is an iPhone. It’s not amazing or revolutionary anymore. There’s nothing else to implement. These phones are what we dreamed of back in 2010. Just all fucking screen and nothing else. Basically, the iPhone just “is”. And oh hey, here’s a bigger battery this year. Cool.
You don’t hear him criticising them because he got shadowbanned for doing it once. There were a couple reviews where he mentioned having to buy the devices himself.
My bigger issue with him is he doesn’t actually review phones. He just holds them and does dramatic shots, which in and of itself is fine, Mr Mobile does the same thing, but that’s all he does.
All his videos are like watching the portfolio of a student videographer. Excellent camera work, with no actual real content.
I remember a few years ago I watched him talk about how he would carry two phones for daily driving; An iPhone for taking photos and an Android for everything else, which just made my eyes roll. I get why for his career plus he has access to phones anyway, but I also feel like his expectations of a smartphone is far removed from an average consumer. Not that people don’t care about cameras - they do, but having the best camera is enough to be contender for flagship of the year for him. Is it really more important than the OS or the price?
I think you’d be surprised at how many people really obsess over having the best camera in their phone. Apple wouldn’t be spending the majority of their damn conferences talking about it now for nothing.
I can also confirm this as I have family that is majority from Cali. All they do is take thousands of fucking photos on their iPhones and if my Mom upgrades, it’s usually because it “gets slow” or she wants the better camera.
As a nerd it’s a shame, because if I could have a smartphone with no front facing camera and a shitty rear one, I would. But I’m in a minority.
Part of the issue, I think, is that we’re at a point in smartphones where improvements from the previous model are only really small incremental tweaks. A few Hz more refresh rate, a few more pixels on one of the cameras, a slightly different curve on the bezel… there isn’t a lot of dramatic innovation to report on most of the time.
But everyone has different wants and needs. For him all he cares about is that it doesn’t stutter and the camera is good. There’s lots of technical reviewers who care more about the camera and some that don’t care about the camera at all. Think of reviewers like Lemmy. There’s an instance for everyone.
In fairness I have two phones. An iPhone and an Android.
But I need an iPhone, well I need it’s depth sensor, the rest of it I don’t care about and I don’t actually have a sim in it.
The Android I use for daily driving.
So I get his point but at the same time I bought my iPhone second hand with a cracked screen because I only needed the depth sensor.
He does review them at least from what I’ve seen recently…but yeah, he has been a lot more hands off over the last two years or so. I’m not sure what’s happened. He used to be the king of tech back in 2017-2018. I started watching him in 2014, as a teen. For a long time people loved him and he was great, but more and more people now seem to dislike him. To an extent I get it. Something has changed in his content over the last two to three years I think.
Because he’s basically a glorified advert. He screws up basic product specs in the majority of his reviews. He’s in the pocket of major tech companies and Tesla. I watched him drool over Elon for years, while his Tesla spent more time on a tow truck than it did the road.
He’s a corporate shill, who’s gone full form over function.
I’m saying he doesn’t review the phone, at all.
Showing a macro lens image of the phone with some water droplets on it does not constitute a review.
Yes, he’s kind of settled into a track in a way. I do think MrMobile does a slightly better job but for in depth reviews Juan Bagnell is very good.
I’m glad he prefers Android but come Apple season he’s going to be gushing all over the new iPhone’s. I don’t hear much criticism of iPhone’s from him, even though they are way behind Android. Even budget Android phones are better than iPhone.
That’s a straight garbage take. You have an incredibly biased view of what better is. Better for you maybe, not better for everyone. Budget Android phones don’t get updated, and you can buy last years iPhone and outperform new android phones.
This is literally like the meme I just posted where it basically said, you can appreciate something and not agree with it. You think Apple shill because he has to play by their rules, yet objectively speaking, he’s always saying things like “incremental update” and “they say blah, but I haven’t seen that yet”. When it comes to Apple, it’s very read between the lines.
