Whether it's the people's choice or the editorial staff choice, the only question that their answering is which is the most popular device among a very biased sample size. We can pretty much figure that out just by looking at sales figures, can't we?
It does not require a lot of nuance to recognize that popularity and actual quality are not necessarily related. I would argue that they're not even correlated at all.
The things that move devices are a combination of perceived quality, marketing, and price. However we can actually determine the quality of device without using any of those three metrics. All it takes is setting up a criteria for scoring, detailing how each metric is going to be measured or evaluated if it is qualitative, and then sticking to an exact methodology when evaluating all contenders.
As an example it would be impossible to call the note 9 the best display in the market, because we know from an objective standpoint that the new iPhone screen is better. In a practical standpoint they are clearly tied, as are several other devices including the new pixels and earlier Galaxy phones and even last year's iPhone flagships. what form of jacked up stamps the new iPhone displays are the best on the market and the note 9 ranks in the top five.
The main trick for setting up criterion methodology is to make sure that you're not setting up a set of metrics that are going to skew to one type of a device over another. If half of your categories are devoted to aspects of software, support and security, it becomes impossible for any Samsung phone from the last 8 years to win. If more than half of your criteria are devoted strictly to the quantity of various hardware components, then excuse to where no one but Huawei or Samsung could possibly win... despite the fact that I think you would have to be absolutely insane to think that Huawei is a top 20 device contender let alone a challenger for the throne. So the approach has to be balanced in a way that what allow us to confidently state that a thing that scores as close to perfectly as possible on the metrics would align with what on average consumer is going to think makes an ideal device.
And we can't ever forget that the average consumer never reads any aspect of the spec sheet. most of them probably never spend more than 20 seconds comparing any one device to another out of the entire year.
It does not require a lot of nuance to recognize that popularity and actual quality are not necessarily related. I would argue that they're not even correlated at all.
The things that move devices are a combination of perceived quality, marketing, and price. However we can actually determine the quality of device without using any of those three metrics. All it takes is setting up a criteria for scoring, detailing how each metric is going to be measured or evaluated if it is qualitative, and then sticking to an exact methodology when evaluating all contenders.
As an example it would be impossible to call the note 9 the best display in the market, because we know from an objective standpoint that the new iPhone screen is better. In a practical standpoint they are clearly tied, as are several other devices including the new pixels and earlier Galaxy phones and even last year's iPhone flagships. what form of jacked up stamps the new iPhone displays are the best on the market and the note 9 ranks in the top five.
The main trick for setting up criterion methodology is to make sure that you're not setting up a set of metrics that are going to skew to one type of a device over another. If half of your categories are devoted to aspects of software, support and security, it becomes impossible for any Samsung phone from the last 8 years to win. If more than half of your criteria are devoted strictly to the quantity of various hardware components, then excuse to where no one but Huawei or Samsung could possibly win... despite the fact that I think you would have to be absolutely insane to think that Huawei is a top 20 device contender let alone a challenger for the throne. So the approach has to be balanced in a way that what allow us to confidently state that a thing that scores as close to perfectly as possible on the metrics would align with what on average consumer is going to think makes an ideal device.
And we can't ever forget that the average consumer never reads any aspect of the spec sheet. most of them probably never spend more than 20 seconds comparing any one device to another out of the entire year.
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