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Apple Sends Out Gift Boxes With AirPods Max and 'Sweet and Spooky' Snacks to Promote Mac Event
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Companies figure it’s cheaper to bribe/pay a small amount to a bunch of influencers instead of a lot to a single advertiser (TV, newspaper, magazine, etc).
These days all reviews are fake in their majority. I received plenty of “discounts” to post a positive review. Imagine those influencers with huge followers. YouTube channels with 250k to 500k receive around $3k to advertise a product/service.
Apple sends gifts and invites to events. If you write something negative (like iPhones having a low 60hz refresh rate) and you’re out.
These days all reviews are fake in their majority. I received plenty of “discounts” to post a positive review. Imagine those influencers with huge followers. YouTube channels with 250k to 500k receive around $3k to advertise a product/service.
Apple sends gifts and invites to events. If you write something negative (like iPhones having a low 60hz refresh rate) and you’re out.
Apple sends bribe to influencers ahead of event for positive reviews
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I think the person you responded to was basically asking what specifically doesn’t make them perfect. Passage of time is correlated to needing updates, but it is not a causation. I’m sure there are reasons an update is needed, but age itself is not a reason because then it would be updating just for the sake of it.
"Apple sucks because my free $500 headphones don't have a port I like."
It’s weird that Apple feels the need to send those multiplicators gifts as advertisements for the presentation/event. All of the YT-contributors will watch anyway. Reminds me a bit of what record labels used to do — and makes me wonder if this event will be of so little importance that it needs such advertising… or there is more to it and Apple seems the event important.
Anyone whose life is validated by those they 'influence' has a mental health problem. I would include 'celebrities' in that too. I can't stand these people and they certainly don't 'influence' me!
Regarding the Max-Headphones, these are weird things. Apart from being overpriced and in desperate need of a better (and free) wired configuration (which you need for low latency), they sound amazing… inside their own ecosystem. If I attach these to a TX-6 or a direct Audio Out of an Amp with the Apple-cable, they sound WAY worse than my old Sony XB 500. Attached to the MacStudio, they are superb. So much right and yet so much weird with these.
Makes me wonder if the event is going to release some Halloween movies or shows too, some Appe TV crossover.
This is so tawdry…
Always thought Apple had more class than to resort to “bribes” — and pandering to “influencers”. 🙈
If I were still a shareholder, I'd be ticked off at the waste of money and by such blatant, even pathetic, attempts to garner attention — and positive reviews. It seems quite juvenile and not at all in line with Apple's premium status. 👎🏽
In any case, as a recipient, would you trust the ”food” and “drink“ in those gift boxes? Those prepackaged items are often stale or laced with salt and sugar. 🔥 ❌ 🍩
Always thought Apple had more class than to resort to “bribes” — and pandering to “influencers”. 🙈
If I were still a shareholder, I'd be ticked off at the waste of money and by such blatant, even pathetic, attempts to garner attention — and positive reviews. It seems quite juvenile and not at all in line with Apple's premium status. 👎🏽
In any case, as a recipient, would you trust the ”food” and “drink“ in those gift boxes? Those prepackaged items are often stale or laced with salt and sugar. 🔥 ❌ 🍩
50% knowledge and 50% ADHD is the key to being a TikTok "influencer".
seems to me that the act of influencing those to keep older MacBooks working on these forums
in regarded as the act of inflatulence, according to .
I got noting, but might score on a recent macmini I had my mind set on all year.
in regarded as the act of inflatulence, according to .
I got noting, but might score on a recent macmini I had my mind set on all year.
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"All reviews are fake in their majority" because YOU received discounts to post positive reviews... Plenty of publications have policies in place to prevent exactly this. The Verge for example, or Ars Technica. It's not because slimebags (like Linus) don't hold themselves to any journalistic standards that "all" reviews are fake...
Is your name Victor Meldrew?Lovely gesture for the rich! I’m minded to wait until any of the British based ones say anything positive and then report them to the Advertising Standards Authority for not labelling it as an #ad.
Infact I’m going to.
We got tough laws here in the UK about things like this
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Anyone complaining about “influencers” being rich and getting everything free can just ****ing do it themselves.
Of course, the fact that “influencer” is even a thing, and that it is possible to potentially make a lot of money, is a problem. However, that is hardly the fault of the influencers taking advantage of the state of the world.
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Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit old, but I don’t see anything at all wrong with no update in 3 years. For a product like this I could see them updating every 5 years or so.
The fact that I purchased a separate pair sums up only that I had a need that these AirPods are not designed for (light weight, travel case, easy to plug into airplane entertainment system) and that I spend too much on headphones.
personally think its B.S that they send this to influencers. in my opinion apple should pick 100 random Apple ID's and send them to there customers. not to people who have been made rich by kissing apples butt.
I’m citing an example on how sellers bribe consumers to post positive reviews to increase sales. Just look at any product with high sales and you’ll see the top reviews are in a sense, biased. Look at any female product with dubious quality… same 4.5/5 reviews.
There is a huge market for that. Same for Google Maps businesses reviews. It cost a dollar on average for a positive review. Just use Bing or a Google competitor search engine and you’ll find plenty of people from poor countries willing to use a VPN from a developed country and post a positive review from one out of his hundred of accounts.
Why? Apple is in the business of making money.
The owners of those 100 random Apple IDs are the people Apple hopes will pay full price for the product. Sending the product to people who will provide advertising is one way to influence those Apple ID owners to fork over the money.
It’s not charity, they’re not doing it because they care about the wellbeing of the influencers.
I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with a longer upgrade cycle, but I definitely think it is a problem that they’re missing significant features that have been added to the AirPods Pro.
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Ever since Apple rolled out high resolution lossless in Apple Music people have correctly pointed out that Apple’s highest end, extremely expensive headphones, don’t support it. There’s no first-party way to actually listen to high resolution lossless. The biggest updated needed is an audio jack and/or USB-C port capable of playing digital audio, plus a DAC built into the headphones capable (the DAC and ADC built into the current APM supports up to 48Hz whereas the audio jack output of recent Macs can support up to 96 Hz and high-res lossless is up to 192 Hz).
Barring this Apple should at least figure out a way to enable true lossless over wireless, be it with a W2 chip or some other means.