jerryc41 wrote:
For those of you who don't know him, David Pogue is a "Personal Tech" columnist for the NY Times. If I read his columns on a regular basis, I'd have closets full of wonderful gadgets and more full credit cards than I have now. It was his column on the Sony RX-100 that almost persuaded me buy one. Ditto for his RX100 II column. Before he wrote about the RX-100, he teased us by saying that he was going to be writing in a future column about the best pocket camera ever made. Right then and there, I knew I just had to have that camera - whatever it was
I NEVER rely on any professional review unless they have lots of charts and data which does not happen too often. In my opinion too many of these so called professional reviewers are bought and paid for. I usually go for the user reviews from people who have actually bought the device and have really used it. Too many times when a product is reviewed, what is said is only what people want to hear.
Just my 2 cents ...........
Everything he writes about, he loves. He doesn't do actual reviews or comparisons. He doesn't say, "Yeah, this is pretty good, but it has it's drawbacks. You might want to consider Brand X, too." Instead, since he loves the product, he raves about it, and I find it hard to resist buying.
If money were no object, I would probably buy 90% of the tech that he writes about, but I find that he is helping me to develop some resistance and will power. Maybe if I had his income, I'd buy more freely. Maybe.
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