Breaking with tradition, the Macalope is here to link to a piece that he likes rather than one that has him banging his antlers against his desk.
Poor desk. It never did anything. It deserves a day off.
Jonathan Kim noticed the same thing the Macalope did about evolving opinion of The Verge’s Vlad Savov on Airpods.
“AirPods and the Three Stages of Apple Criticism.”
Yes, just like rockets, pundit opinions can have stages. And both can fail in extravagant and embarrassing explosions.
Kim’s three stages are Anger, which comes after the product is announced and pundits just know they hate it, Blaming the “Victims,” when the product’s success is the fault of those dumb Apple fans, and Acceptance, wherein the pundit realizes, hey, this product is actually good.
