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Big Brand names whose products are way overrated

Capt. Autumn

Can I kick off with Dyson?

A huge launch and massive marketing drive for Dyson products but I've always been underwhelmed by how they actually perform. Maybe the fuss generated is something to do with it being the first UK designed product to make a big splash in many the year but, for me, they are the Apple of products from a marketing perspective but an Acer in terms of performance.

When I finally kicked my under-performing Dyson to the kerb and replaced in with a big ugly Meile, I nearly cried in gratitude when I heard the motor rumble to life and watched as my carpet was sucked to within an inch of it's life.

So, what brands do you think are overrated?

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vard

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

This is why android will always be inferior, apple co-design their hardware and software to work flawlessly together while android is a mismatch of different companies software and hardware resulting in laggy, buggy devices with poor use-ability and badly utilised hardware. Android is also a horrible operating system to use from a navigating around it perspective etc.

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

What do you mean by "tech people"? I used to work as a writer for one of the largest tech magazines and websites in the US. I was surrounded by all sorts of tech people. High end android phones are as popular, particularly among people who don't like the walled garden of iOS. Android offers more advanced use cases such as emulation, customization of core features like navigation... and Android has long since matured to be just as buttery smooth as iOS. Even more so, in some cases, as only Android offers high refresh rate screens, and the majority of high end Android devices use the same Qualcomm series of processors.

On the other hand, Windows is the go-to enterprise operating system. Mac has grown to be popular among video editors, but the fastest computer is always going to be a PC, while still being FAR cheaper than the Apple alternative. There are as many people who continue to champion PC for this reason, and windows vs OSX is just a matter of preference. With PC, you have the option to upgrade and customize your build to suit your own needs, and you can dual boot either OS, if you must.

corks finest

thequarefellow wrote: »

Have to second Dyson. Overhyped, plasticky, but most of all just don't deliver on suction.

Cadbury's chocolate too. Dreadful. I worked in a place where all the old Dears buy me a box of Cadburys Roses at Christmas. They went straight in the bin.

Agree ref Dyson, Miele are better, cheaper and more reliable

corks finest

Capra wrote: »

Nah, ASICS are a serious quality item. Of course you may have got a bad pair as they literally make hundreds of different styles and they are bound to have some duds. but of all the brands I think they are right up there with the best in their category.

Agree nothing special, I've a pair a few months,same as all the rest

corks finest

vard wrote: »

This little film pretty much sums up the Android vs iPhone debate www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mm086xqQE

404 error must be Apple alright

Wizard!

corks finest wrote: »

404 error must be Apple alright

Must be your Android... Link is live and visible.

CosmicFool

Ye really need to get over the Apple V Android thing. Its a phone, the all do mostly the same thing

Montage of Feck

The whole phone fanboy thing is just about to get more silly, as manufacturers are now starting to put out phones with unnecessary over the top specs.

snoopboggybog

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

This is why android will always be inferior, apple co-design their hardware and software to work flawlessly together while android is a mismatch of different companies software and hardware resulting in laggy, buggy devices with poor use-ability and badly utilised hardware. Android is also a horrible operating system to use from a navigating around it perspective etc.

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

What are you talking about? I work in tech.

I know its a matter of opinion but IOS is shocking and completely locked down. Any tech person I know used Android for this reason. Its the not so smart people that go for Apple devices because of the brand name and any tech person hates the lock down on Apple devices.

What I find with Mac Books with people that use them is they think their technical but there not whatseover. I know its good for video editing but apart from that you are paying over the odds just for the logo. Your usual blogger type people.

People just pay over the odds for Apple stuff for the label.

[Deleted User]

snoopboggybog wrote: »

What are you talking about? I work in tech.

I know its a matter of opinion but IOS is shocking and completely locked down. Any tech person I know used Android for this reason. Its the not so smart people that go for Apple devices because of the brand name and any tech person hates the lock down on Apple devices.

What I find with Mac Books with people that use them is they think their technical but there not whatseover. I know its good for video editing but apart from that you are paying over the odds just for the logo. Your usual blogger type people.

People just pay over the odds for Apple stuff for the label.

Bit of a generalisation there.

Suckit

FVP3 wrote: »

It's perfectly legit to use the term Android phone. Everybody knows what that means.

Yep, I was referring to the fact that they aren't specifically android though. They are phones that come with android installed on them.

FVP3 wrote: »

iPhones in fact last far longer than Android phones up to twice as long, and continue to get OS updates for years. It's clear in the data, but just walking around that people are quite happy with the older devices. iPhones are for normal people.

Apple products are way overrated, and that's what this thread is about. They are not worth the premium extra price that people pay for them. No idea where you get the notion that they last twice as long. They were fined (again) this year for forcing updates that cause their phones and tablets to slow down in an attempt to encourage the user to buy a new one.

FVP3 wrote: »

I find the exact opposite, as does the data. iOS is fluid, and most Android devices I have used are buggy, laggy or crashy. To be fair the android phones I use are cheap. I do have both as I said, because I need to use Android where the iPhone's security stops me from some work.

But as I said above, its a certain type of nerd who loves Android. Not the brightest nerds, as someone who is around the campus of Facebook and Google quite a bit because my company does work there, the iPhone predominates, as does the Mac.

:rolleyes:

L1011

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

As someone else said on the thread, look at any real tech people not your bargain basement type - they all use iPhones and Macbooks etc.

Translation - look at anyone who doesn't have to spend their own money yet gets to pick hardware.

And I'd disagree about them using iPhones; its the Macbooks they go for (for looks); and they're running Linux or Windows on them.

iPhones are used by the image obsessed and little else now. They have always been limited, restrictive devices that actual tech people would never want to use. Took three entire OS revisions to fix a minor bug relating to priority email alerts that anyone doing real tech work and getting alerts would find sufficient to dump the device entirely.

First iPhone had about a tenth of the features of the existing smartphones; but had a capacitive touchscreen so it was easier to use that 10% on (it couldn't even run non-web applications for quite some time, jesus). That market of providing a simplified shiny shiny still exists. They're phones for the image obsessed not those who actually need to use them to work.

[Deleted User]

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

YFlyer

Fizzy drinks companies in general.

L1011

JL555 wrote: »

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

Standard Apple booster reply circa 1998. It doesn't work anymore. It barely passed then and that was because most people had never used any Apple kit then - now nearly everyone has.

Nobody who criticises Apple kit secretly wishes they could use it - they have and wish they hadn't.

snoopboggybog

JL555 wrote: »

Lot of angry people on this thread giving out about certain devices they most likely have never used and secretly wish they could own. Chill out people, each to their own.

Nah, just Apple fan boys overpaying for stuff and falling for advertising.

Its quite funny. They wouldn't even know the specs of the IPhones if you asked them.

[Deleted User]

You would have to laugh at the android fanboys frothing at the mouth when they inferior devices are called out for what they are. I've never ever come across something that my "locked down" iPhone couldn't do. Yet all you hear from the android plebs is "walled garden" and "locked down". Its fully as they probably don't even realise how superior a user experience it is to be in the apple eco system and how all your device work hand in hand with each other like the android boys could only dream of.

I wouldn't even take a job that expected me to use a windows machine or an android phone, couldn't dealing with that day to day.

snoopboggybog

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

You would have to laugh at the android fanboys frothing at the mouth when they inferior devices are called out for what they are. I've never ever come across something that my "locked down" iPhone couldn't do. Yet all you hear from the android plebs is "walled garden" and "locked down". Its fully as they probably don't even realise how superior a user experience it is to be in the apple eco system and how all your device work hand in hand with each other like the android boys could only dream of.

I wouldn't even take a job that expected me to use a windows machine or an android phone, couldn't dealing with that day to day.

Superior devices? Give me a Note 10 over any Iphone. I have a work Iphone, I have a Samsung Note 10 Plus as my own personal phone. The Note 10 wins hands down.

There is more customization with Android, IOS is like a brick wall. It just sucks donkey balls and too locked down.

I would rather a 150 euro Android phone than a 1200 Iphone. There's not even widgets on IOS hahaaha

As for your part in Bold any decent company uses Iphones as they are more secure.

The note 10 plus beats any fecking Iphone hands down.

ILoveYourVibes

Wizard! wrote: »

Lacoste
I still have some polo shirts I bought back in the 80's. Their colors are saturated, the fabric still perfect.
However, the new ones? From mid 90's and later?
Worse than some Chinese copies you buy for 5 euros. However, the prices are still high.

Nautica
Similar case, but they were never of good quality, although they are at the same price range of Lacoste

That's because they want to market to people who can through away money but treat the clothes like fast fashion.

All the designer labels walked away from the 'invest because it lasts ' business models in the last few years.

The red soles on Louboutin shoes are actually MADE to wear away faster than normal so it becomes a status symbol to buy them regularly.

On the Christian Louboutin website, under “Product Care,” the brand states “red lacquer on our soles will wear off with the use of the shoes,”

This is not a manufacturing defect of the shoes. They are made to be that way.

I would say its the same with the dye in a lot of designer clothes.

makeandcreate

Over rated? Well, it's over priced for a Rab C Nesbitt condom - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10223148270759939&set=gm.650446205510202

georgina...c

Pfeh nandos. Don't get it. And subway. Ate there twice. Both times .. muck.

snoopboggybog

georgina...c wrote: »

Pfeh nandos. Don't get it. And subway. Ate there twice. Both times .. muck.

I always feel ill after a subway. Stopped eating there.

georgina...c

Ye crappest food ever

ILoveYourVibes

snoopboggybog wrote: »

I always feel ill after a subway. Stopped eating there.

Never had Nandos. Was forced to have subway once because friends wanted to go there. Awful.

[Deleted User]

georgina...c wrote: »

Pfeh nandos. Don't get it. And subway. Ate there twice. Both times .. muck.

I miss subway, went there every Friday for the last 5 years or so but haven’t had one since lockdown, subway day was the best day of the week. Delicious!

whisky_galore

snoopboggybog wrote: »

I always feel ill after a subway. Stopped eating there.

Agree. It looks well behind the glass and smells ok, but tastes like it's made of plastic.

georgina...c

Paris Skinny Wallpaper wrote: »

I miss subway, went there every Friday for the last 5 years Or but haven’t had one since lockdown, subway day was the best day of the week. Delicious!

No it's mank. You obviously don't have good taste.

Alf Veedersane

thequarefellow wrote: »

Have to second Dyson. Overhyped, plasticky, but most of all just don't deliver on suction.

Have to say my experience is different re the suction. Was given one as a present and I've found it great on carpets in particular.

All that fandango

Fitbit. Shoddiest heap of crap Ive ever spent money on. Nothing but issues regarding syncing and pairing with bluetooth.

micar

thequarefellow wrote: »

Asics running shoes. I was talked into spending almost €200 on a pair of these for their 'superior quality and support; choice of top runners etc etc' when I started running a few years ago. They fell apart after 6 months.

Most brand of runners Asics, Brooks, ,Mizuno, New Balance and Nike are all up to €150 a pair.

They bring out a spring/summer pair and an autumn/winter pair.

No point in buying this season's pair. I always buy last season pair which would be reduced to around €100.

the beer revolu

georgina...c wrote: »

Pfeh nandos. Don't get it. .

I don't get the fascination for Nando's amongst some but a 1/4 chicken, mash and green salad for €10 is a handy, decent, tasty, cheap meal.