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LTT is more focused on entertaining the audience than providing thorough, professional testing.

Operyl 5y ago
He’s recently pivoted a ton of his business to proper lab testing, and is hiring for it. It’ll be interesting to see, I think he might strike a better balance for those types of videos (I too am a bit tired of the clickbait nature these days).
- geerlingguy 5y ago
  So he says; I wish the funding were available to other groups who already have a more proven / technical track record in the area, though. Like... what if LTT bought out Anandtech instead of trying to spin up a new 'labs' to replicate what has largely been lost (but still exists to an extent) in a few dusty corners of the tech journalism world. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but there's so far been a lot of "just try me" and "we hired someone amazing" but I'll believe it when I see results!
  - ryan29 5y ago
    AnandTech is owned [1] by a media conglomerate with a $4,000,000,000 USD market cap [2]. That's a lot of water bottles. 1. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13092/future-plc-to-acquire-conmsumer-division-of-anandtech-publisher-purch https://www.anandtech.com/show/13092/future-plc-to-acquire-c... 2. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FUTR.L?p=FUTR.L&.tsrc=fin-srch https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FUTR.L?p=FUTR.L&.tsrc=fin...
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    - ggreg84 5y ago
      And Anandtech doesn't allow anyone to reproduce their results, and their readers are their product, so...
kevincox 5y ago
But audience is also important. If it is only super-technical sources that are reporting faulty drives then the manufactures won't care much. However if you get a very popular source that has a lot of audience, especially in the high-margin "gamer" vertical then all of a sudden the manufactures will care a lot. So if LTT does start providing more objective benchmarks and reviews it could be a powerful market force.

He’s recently pivoted a ton of his business to proper lab testing, and is hiring for it. It’ll be interesting to see, I think he might strike a better balance for those types of videos (I too am a bit tired of the clickbait nature these days).

geerlingguy 5y ago
So he says; I wish the funding were available to other groups who already have a more proven / technical track record in the area, though. Like... what if LTT bought out Anandtech instead of trying to spin up a new 'labs' to replicate what has largely been lost (but still exists to an extent) in a few dusty corners of the tech journalism world. I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt, but there's so far been a lot of "just try me" and "we hired someone amazing" but I'll believe it when I see results!
- ryan29 5y ago
  AnandTech is owned [1] by a media conglomerate with a $4,000,000,000 USD market cap [2]. That's a lot of water bottles. 1. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13092/future-plc-to-acquire-conmsumer-division-of-anandtech-publisher-purch https://www.anandtech.com/show/13092/future-plc-to-acquire-c... 2. https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FUTR.L?p=FUTR.L&.tsrc=fin-srch https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/FUTR.L?p=FUTR.L&.tsrc=fin...
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  - ggreg84 5y ago
    And Anandtech doesn't allow anyone to reproduce their results, and their readers are their product, so...

kevincox 5y ago

But audience is also important. If it is only super-technical sources that are reporting faulty drives then the manufactures won't care much. However if you get a very popular source that has a lot of audience, especially in the high-margin "gamer" vertical then all of a sudden the manufactures will care a lot. So if LTT does start providing more objective benchmarks and reviews it could be a powerful market force.