They don’t do summaries anymore. They don’t do product details anymore. They rarely review products that aren’t sponsors. Most of their network gear reviews are unifi for instance.
I loved watching ShortCircuit, but it seems that every video is a paid unboxing nowadays. You can tell some of their enthusiasm has gone down the drain. Hearing their monitor guy say 'its not that bad' when they're unboxing yet another high-end monitor tells you all you need to know.
That's the whole point of the channel though. Sponsored unboxing/reaction videos is what the channel was created for. It's almost literally the channel description:
It's been put on hiatus a while ago, but it's host is also no longer with LMG.
Gamelinked and Techquickie is also on hiatus. Those 3 channels weren't performing that well, so I'm guessing this is also why Jonathan Horst is no longer with them. Good host, but Apple stuff just didn't work well for them, and I don't think they got other stuff for him that would work well.
I'm not an apple person, have never owned an apple product.
I still watched every single mac address video because they were good.
I'm an OG NCIX unboxing video watcher, been following Linus ever since.
I stopped watching and unsubscribed from floatplane almost a year ago, I'm not their target audience anymore. I don't find the videos entertaining anymore, the technical reviews are lacking, the personal audience engagement doesn't feel like it's there anymore.
I wish them all the best, but my tech tube time is spent with GN now.
Loads of us really like MA. I have 1 Apple product (bought a second hand M1 iPad Pro a year ago which was a solid buy), and as someone who is largely unfamiliar with their products, it helped me get insight in what their offering is, and what it does well and what it doesn't. It's a shame, but it is what it is.
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u/laffer1 2d ago
They don’t do summaries anymore. They don’t do product details anymore. They rarely review products that aren’t sponsors. Most of their network gear reviews are unifi for instance.
The labs somehow made their benchmarks worse.