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Marquez Brownlee

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first: 2024-05-13
most recent: 2024-05-13
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“Um... I just very quickly, I would say she is the best singer, songwriter since the 1960s and 70s when we had people like Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and Paul McCartney and that kind of thing. She's the best singer-songwriter, but she has something those people didn't have. She's a much better business person, and she's actually a much better on stage performer than any of those people. The world was different. They didn't have the kinds of concerts in those days that they do now. And so she has those two additional things. And she's a great product. She's great talent. She's a great product.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I reviewed Taylor Swift, man, I would probably have to, I think I would go to a concert as a product. Like that would be the product I reviewed and it would probably have something to do with whether or not it was worth the hype because the hype is set an all-time high.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Taylor Swift, as a lot of people savor products, man. She's entertaining. She's She's everywhere. She is almost, she almost defies language. Like people, she can go to any country and people want to see her perform. So I feel like she is a lot of people's favorite product.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doing that, that we teach these kids. Well, AI is going to make that infinitely worse. So what I want and what I think Open AI has started to work on in a small way is I want an AI tool that can detect AI content. My understanding is that's a very difficult problem and they don't have that big an economic incentive to do it, but that's what I want to see. And then we can have all the AI we want and somebody who wants to not be tricked will have a tool to help with that.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think both, in a way, I'll just be very quick about this. My last column was called the Disappearing Computer. And it talked about ambient computing. And my point was, you know, the ceilings, the floors, the furniture, everything is going to have some sensors and some processing power. And you're not going to need a specific thing like a tablet or a computer or even a watch necessarily to tell you what temperature you can just say you'll be able to do what they didn't Star Trek or just say you know where is where is marquez what's the temperature whatever um pessimistic is you know i'm on the board of the news literacy project which teaches kids in school how to tell fact from fiction online ai is and we have ways of doing that and there are ways of”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay. Yeah, I actually love the idea. Being able to purchase a digital assistant that can do a whole bunch of things for me just like a human assistant would. Imagine just little assistant, this little digital thing that knows everything about me and I just say, hey, buy me a plane ticket. And it knows I like the window seat and it knows I like to fly out of Newark from United. And it just knows everything about me and can help me. I love that idea. However, you know, all the tech and the products coming out are not there yet, to put it nicely. So we end up getting a whole bunch of like, well, what if it could do this products? Or what if it was just the one track? You know, it's just a chat bot. What if it's just this? Some of these are kind of interesting. Sora isn't like publicly available yet, but it's maybe the closest one I've seen to being unbelievable at something. But it's still, I'm still waiting for it to get generally.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. We haven't seen a reaction from Apple. It kind of feels like they never tend to respond to these types of things, but we'll see.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally understand how Apple never saw the other side of it, which is, wait a second, we're crushing every artistic and beautiful thing you've ever known into a small black box. I don't know. It just didn't hit the same way the second or third time, yeah, watching it.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Man, I saw it and I remember watching it during the keynote, and I thought it was, oh, that's clever. They're like crunching down all this creative juice into one product. And then I saw the reactions into the iPad. Now I see all the reactions online.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And they have cameras in them and computers and an LLM, and they try to pack as much tech in there as possible and some batteries. But they look like normal glasses. And those are trying to accelerate to do more and more and more. Where on the other end of that spectrum is Vision Pro, which is all the things, but it doesn't look like anything you would wear today. And so they're trying to shrink it over and over again, shrink it down, shrink it down until it looks like a regular pair of glasses. And so they're kind of meeting somewhere in the middle. I don't know, it just feels kind of dystopian to imagine like everyone's going to have something on their face at some point in the future. I don't know if that's the wearable computer revolution we all want. But yeah, I mean, I got to admit that tech is incredible if you just don't look at me while I'm wearing it.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's a great point. So I kind of talked about this where Vision Pro is on one side of a spectrum where on the other side you have smart glasses, where smart glasses are, they look very normal. And you could see people walking around with them today and not even notice. But they're trying to pack as much”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, yeah, the tech is incredible. But also, have you seen people, what they look like walking around with them on? Yeah, that part not so great. I'm not sure people will.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's a relatively harmless conspiracy theory, but he's more recently endorsed bigger ones. So, yeah, and then the product, I think, has suffered from some of the same things. I mean, you know, there is no content moderation. And when there is no content moderation, you find that when you post something, your comments are not just, it's healthy to have people disagree with you. That's fine in a civil way, even if they're all fired up. I mean, they could do an eight. And as long as it's Sibyl, it's fine with me. But now the whole thing is following Elon's ethos of attacking you personally, of getting into bigotry and lies and conspiracy theories and all that. So the product is much, much less of a great...”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's what Twitter had become, has become. I understand that there are journalists like you, Kara, who have to be there in order to properly cover what's going on there. And that was my beat, a big part of my beat. I would probably still be there, but I didn't have to be there. And I know Elon. I know you know Elon, but for some reason, he's become an anti-Semite, or at least an adjacent anti-Semite, however you want to put it. I think he's a bigot. I think there's a whole, I think he's a conspiracy theorist. I know he's a conspiracy theorist. He once told you and I on stage that he believed we were all just simulations in a video game being played by an alien.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, I had not as many followers as you, but I had, I don't know, 850,000 followers. I don't know how many of them were bots, no way to tell, but I could not take, I would not frequent a bar that was basically a Nazi bar.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the cybertruck so it's very comfortable, it's smooth, it's actually fundamentally a really solid vehicle. It's the exact same range as my Rivian. It's more spacious. It has a bigger bed. It has the same power features. It's the quickest truck ever made. It's kind of a lot going for it. But there's the other thing about Walt and I are viewing products. Other people have had issues with their trucks that I haven't had with mine. So I can see how people really don't like the cyber truck if they might have one of those issues. If you're paying.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have driven probably close to 100 cars now in my testing of vehicles. None of them get any sort of attention like that. And I think that is why it's iconic is because there are Lamborghinis that are on kids' walls. There are Bugatti Verons that are on kids' walls. And if you see one of those on the street, that's the reaction that people are giving this truck. So yeah, then the rest of the features came after that. It's obviously got its flaws. It's got its recalls. I made a short about that too, but it is quite an icon on the street.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and going to shopwriter, going to the recycling center or whatever and stopping to talk to people about it. And every single person had the same top line set of questions. Like they would eventually get to what's the range? Oh, this thing is electric. Like, what are the features like? How long does it take to charge? But at the very top was always just like, what is this thing? I've never seen anything that looks like this. And the reactions that you get on the street and the people who are driving next to you on the highway who take their phone out while they're driving, like I said in the beginning of the video, the most dangerous thing about the truck is the way it makes other people on the road behave around you.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Iconic again is one of those titles that we spent a lot of time thinking about and a lot of time coming up with. And I talked about how it took us a month to put together these thoughts because I was living with the vehicle for five, six, seven weeks.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Cybertruck is really interesting. So, Tesla, first of all, is famously very weird about PR. Sometimes they have a PR department, sometimes they don't. But in the past, I have purchased vehicles from Tesla and they will find my order and go, oh, that's Marquez's, we'll move it earlier in the queue so that I get it earlier. And I'll get a call from someone who's like, hey, we moved it earlier in the queue just so, you know, if you want to make a video, you can be in the first wave. They've since started doing PR stuff again and stopped whatever. They're very weird about that. But with the Cybertruck, I bought a cybertruck and then I got my Cybertruck to review. So I reviewed the vehicle I bought.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wasn't being done and it wasn't primarily video in those days. I think that We treated it as a case by case basis. I mean, like she says, the government of Gutter, I think it's pronounced Gutter or Qatar. Wanted to pay for every cent of us coming there and doing a conference. And we just said no. A lot of money. We wouldn't have done it with the US government. We just wouldn't have done it with any government. And so I think what you want to preserve is your independence and your honesty. There already are people who distrust journalists instinctively who thought I was being bought. There were loads of people who thought I was being bought. So that's a problem to begin with. You don't want to feed that in any way. And so we would take it case by case.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you gave some examples. I think a really good one is D brand. They make skins for phones. They don't make phones. So I review a phone. They're a perfect integration because they make an accessory for that phone. And I don't like to use cases. So they're kind of like the perfect accessory that I would use for it. So it's like, that's right in the Goldilocks zone of they don't make what I review, but I do like and believe in their thing and it's close enough that it's a great plug. That's a perfect use case for that.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I guess kind of my only rule, or I have basically two rules for companies that I will actually work with on a not editorial basis. One is that they don't do anything in the area of things that I actually review and you're right, I also don't own stocks in any of the companies that I review. I don't own any stocks. But the other rule is that I actually have to believe in the thing. I actually have to like it or use it or believe in it in some way. And so as long as those two things are true, then it is a candidate for maybe being endorsed or partner or collab or something like that”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they were all talking about this certain product whether they should buy it or not. And I'm just chiming in as someone who just happens to have the product and use it. And that's just how it sort of feels on the internet. Like, oh, I have one. Actually, it's pretty good. Here's what I liked about it. And that's the sort of thing people, that's what trust looks like.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was just talking in a group me, a bunch of messages, group me terrible app. But Frisbee team I play for uses it to talk to each other.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just a basic, how long have you been doing this the way I expect someone I trust to be doing this? When you see, and the other half of this, and I wish I could do like some sort of journalistic sort of sidebar where you can just see all my ethics next to every video, but I don't necessarily have that ability, but I've done a video like, can you trust Marquez Brownley where I talked about exactly here is what I disclose, here's what I have to disclose legally, here is how I handle ads, here is like everything laid out in front of you. So you know that from the get-go. So when you watch videos and people don't disclose and you notice that, or when people have a bunch of affiliate links and have said, you really should buy this one and it looks kind of weird, that stuff erodes trust. So yeah, I kind of feel like you just treat it like a person to a person.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, thanks, Joanna. I think That is for sure something to consider. I think, honestly, as far as knowing who to trust, that's still going to come from this very human thing of what is your track record of being trustworthy”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, no. He's not living. I've never gotten any angry, I don't like your video calls, but I have definitely gotten emails asking for clarification on things or some examples. Or I said some camera is bad. So they're like, can you send us some of those sample images? We want to look back at some of that stuff. That's happened.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Product, then I don't really feel any obligation to change it or defend it. Here's my experience. This is how it went. I'm testing the thing you're shipping. So yeah, never any crazy calls, but I mean.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was going to say no, not really. And I'm curious, Walt, because just when I hear, you know, oh, this downside was unfair or, you know, these cons about the product were unfair. I wonder what your reaction to that is because I've always thought like, okay, I'm trying to be as honest as possible here. So I get the product. I test it. If things are really good about it and my experience is great, I'm writing that down. If things are bad about it or it's buggy or it has an issue or it doesn't do what it's supposed to do, I write that down. At the end of my review period, I get to whatever and I'm like, all right, I feel like I know everything I need to know. Time to put together the piece. And I put it out. And if they think that something is unfair, that it seems like they're suggesting that I missed something or I'm incorrect in some way. And maybe I've gotten a CEO or to call me a lot of marketing people, you know, PR people call. But at the end of the day, if what I'm saying is true about the”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The lens that people look at everything from. I try to take constructive criticism obviously with anything that we make, but obviously we considered the title and all the things that went into the Humane Pin review very thoroughly. It's a new form factor. It's a very interesting product to us. So the review, a lot of work went into it. But yeah, I feel like for the most part, people agreed with the way we framed it, the way we analyzed the product, the conclusions that we came to, which by the way it is still the worst product I've ever reviewed, but that's still a for now thing. Because of the state of these products, you know, they're supposed to get so much better. So we'll keep an eye on it”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's a really interesting question. I do feel like a lot of the times you see a response like that. You click on their bio and you're like, oh, you're invested in the company. Oh, you work for the company or something like that. And I guess the other, the only other version of that I've seen is like when someone has a persona or a theme that they have to stick to or they're like, I am the optimist about tech and tech can only be good. And so if anything says tech is bad, I have to defend it. And that's kind of the other bubble that I guess some people. Yes.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, and that's one of the things we try not to do is like if you're over the, if you over promise and under deliver, if you're sensational or something like that, people will watch the video and find it not to represent what you're actually saying and they'll leave and YouTube analytics will reflect that and then you're punished for that so that that doesn't work.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not give away too much, but it also needs to create intrigue so that you actually do want to watch the video. But it also needs to be somewhat unique in a way that, because I could just call, like, let's say a new phone comes out, for example, I could just call it Galaxy S24 review. And that's it. No effort, headline works for the video. But there could be some common thread that I've strung through the entire video that is the theme or the motif of the video that could be an appendage to that title that kind of helps you, you know, stay paying attention for the whole video. So there's all kinds of methods that we have for coming up with titles like that. Yeah, so it's kind of more of a science than anything. There are just”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I think we spend a lot of time debating. I have a small team and we talk about titles all the time and try to figure out what is the best title that kind of has a bunch of different jobs. It needs to summarize the video or the sentiment of the video.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think what you'll notice a lot of people point out is on YouTube, specifically. So, I talked about this in a recent video, but basically there is the part where you're reviewing a product and trying to be fair and honest and informative for the person watching. But then the other half for people making videos online is how do you package it? And I think if I was writing for substack or writing for a newspaper or a blog, you can package it in all these different ways. And I think people maybe either ignore or aren't as familiar with YouTube packaging in a way that sort of clearly translates to clicks while still being honest. So yeah, those are, as you point out, two different challenges that come with the same job, but we try to blend them together as best we can.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess probably the most interesting part since it is YouTube that we're talking about is there are Of voices now. Like, anyone can review anything they have, but I think the challenge is when a phone comes out, for example, There could be 50, 100 videos that day all about that device reviewing it. And so you kind of have to give people a good reason to watch yours instead of just reviewing it like anyone else. You kind of need this additional extra, you know, whether it's production value or entertainment value or something to give people a reason to look at your thing. So that feels like a little extra challenge on top of just the regular review part of trying to be honest about a product.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At the time, and the head of Prodigy apparently appeared at the journal offices like a week later and demanded I be fired.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when I started, the challenges were first of all, there were internal challenges. Believe it or not, there was a significant amount of opinion among some of the editors that technology wasn't important enough to devote a column to. I'd been there 20 years covering Washington policy and all that. So they knew who I was. They didn't think technology mattered. So that was the first thing. The top editor at the time is the one who pushed it through and became very popular very quickly, but the editors didn't see it. And then the companies went crazy. One of the earliest comms I wrote, and you know all about this Kara was I said AOL was the online service of the future. It was the one you should all join. Don't bother with Prodigy. Don't bother with CompuServe.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I started my column in 1991, which was not the like. birth of the mass market personal computer but it was the it was the roughly the moment when it began to spread in a big way to Consumers. And my column was Different than all the other columns that were out there at the time because I spoke in plain English or if you use jargon to this day. I don't think I ever, I mean, I wrote thousands of comps. I don't think I ever used the word milliamp. And the second way was Focused clearly on Quality, ease of use, utility for the consumer I don't think in any of those columns the word stock appears, the word market cap appears. Earnings appear. None of those words appear. It's all product and it's all consumer and it's all about that.”
2024-05-13 · On with Kara Swisher · Walt Mossberg & MKBHD Break Down The Art of the Tech Review · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT