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>I think this guy was just musing about Apple's quality and has watched a lot of AvE and This Old Tony on YouTube and wanted to share his opinions with the worl
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
>I think this guy was just musing about Apple's quality and has watched a lot of AvE and This Old Tony on YouTube and wanted to share his opinions with the world. They're not all entirely correct.
IDK what the author's qualifications are but the ones you list would make him at least as qualified as whoever's "simple but wrong" take on a problem is thrice guided on Reddit or at the top of HN at any particular minute.
The reality is that if you wanna write "popular" context you gotta cater to a low common denominator, maybe not the lowest but you will have to stare deep into the abyss of ignorance and hubris to find it. A nuanced take that will pass the muster of a subject matter grey beard is going to be too nuanced, too informed by 1st/2nd hand experience and physical reality to resonate with the hordes of casual readers it needs to resonate with in order to gain any traction. Regardless of the qualifications of the author the content MUST be dumbed down to the point of being useless to anyone with the problems discussed therein in order to resonate with the audience it needs to resonate with for it to gain enough traction for us to be talking about it here (and frankly it's a lot easier to write that kind of resonating content from within the abyss than looking in above it).
I'm not really in the mood to write a sufficiently internet-nitpicker-proof wall of text but this sort of content where people opine on things of which their depth of knowledge is only a hair deeper than that of the casual or create content from that perspective despite being smarter than that is highly, highly incentivized by how we have set up the platforms and information flows that control where/how entertainment content (like a blog article or a video) gets dolled out to people seeking to consume such content.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThe partially blind leading the blind then?
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe legally blind leading the blind in practice.