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Damn selling that prototype is a major dick move. Even if he really paid back Billet, the damage has been done. I never trusted LTT before and only watched for the entertainment value, which was not that high to begin with, but now I will avoid any video they put out. Even MacAddress which is imo their most reasonable and fair channel.
How much do you think anybody cares about $800 water blocks? That is a product that is completely irrelevant to the target audience even if it did work as intended. Billet got a lot of free press out of it, they should be happy.
ah how does Linus’ taint taste like. It doesn’t matter if nobody cares about overpriced waterblocks. LTT didn’t have permission to auction off the unit. Imagine if a car channel auctioned off an expensive super car prototype (which nobody in the target audience can buy) without the car company’s permission that channel would find themselves in hot water. And Billet allegedly even asked LTT multiple times to send the unit back.
LTT didn’t have permission to auction off the unit.
What the fuck does that matter? LTT gets oodles of free crap all the time, they have to get rid of it somehow. A bit of kit landed on the wrong stack and got sold off instead of returned. So what? What the hell does that tell me about anything? LTT is a pretty sizable company, so of course mistakes will be made and sometimes one person won’t know what the other is doing, and this is a pretty tiny one. Making a big deal out of such a triviality that has absolutely no relevance to the viewer is ridiculous.
You sound like the kind of asshole that borrows shit from friends, sells it instead of returning it, and then gives a bunch of whiney excuses about how much you needed the money or that it was just lying around for so long. And then get upset at others for liking you less because it’s not like you stole from them.
You seem to think that some shitty $800 water block is a significant amount of money in the world where LTT operates in. Just getting a sponsorship into a video with 1.4 million views would have cost multiple thousands of dollar.
Yes, they could’ve get rid of it by, I don’t know, returning it to them. As they promised in writing they would do. That’s theft. Mistakes are human, this was negligence. They knew they made a mistake and doubled down, and made it worse. It’s not trivial, it’s theft and corporate espionage if the prototype landed in the wrong hands. I don’t get how can anyone lick the boots of a hundred million company by minimizing their negligence and unethical actions.
And why should I care? Billet send in their prototype for some free advertisement and it backfired. The fact that this kind of advertainment is what the whole tech journalism industry runs on is worthy of criticism, but this little fuck up is so utterly irrelevant.
It matters because that was a one off prototype that probably cost thousands to manufacture. Even the lost time and opportunity cost of LTT keeping it for months can absolutely kill a company’s chances. It doesn’t matter if it was irrelevant to the LTT audience, or if Linus thought it was a stupid product. It was made by two dudes who wanted to see something brought into the world that didn’t previously exist.
No one bats an eye at $800 artisan keyboards, even if they function the exact same as a $50 one. They look cool, or they feel nice, or whatever justification people make to themselves. It’s not for one influencer to decide “this is stupid, I want you to make something else”
They are a startup, it’s their prototype, LTT had loan of it, not ownership. Most companies that do this end up broke after the lawsuit and my god I hope Billet presses this one for all LTT are worth.
Damn selling that prototype is a major dick move. Even if he really paid back Billet, the damage has been done. I never trusted LTT before and only watched for the entertainment value, which was not that high to begin with, but now I will avoid any video they put out. Even MacAddress which is imo their most reasonable and fair channel.
How much do you think anybody cares about $800 water blocks? That is a product that is completely irrelevant to the target audience even if it did work as intended. Billet got a lot of free press out of it, they should be happy.
ah how does Linus’ taint taste like. It doesn’t matter if nobody cares about overpriced waterblocks. LTT didn’t have permission to auction off the unit. Imagine if a car channel auctioned off an expensive super car prototype (which nobody in the target audience can buy) without the car company’s permission that channel would find themselves in hot water. And Billet allegedly even asked LTT multiple times to send the unit back.
What the fuck does that matter? LTT gets oodles of free crap all the time, they have to get rid of it somehow. A bit of kit landed on the wrong stack and got sold off instead of returned. So what? What the hell does that tell me about anything? LTT is a pretty sizable company, so of course mistakes will be made and sometimes one person won’t know what the other is doing, and this is a pretty tiny one. Making a big deal out of such a triviality that has absolutely no relevance to the viewer is ridiculous.
You sound like the kind of asshole that borrows shit from friends, sells it instead of returning it, and then gives a bunch of whiney excuses about how much you needed the money or that it was just lying around for so long. And then get upset at others for liking you less because it’s not like you stole from them.
You seem to think that some shitty $800 water block is a significant amount of money in the world where LTT operates in. Just getting a sponsorship into a video with 1.4 million views would have cost multiple thousands of dollar.
It should be easy for ltt to reimburse then, which imo should also cover lost opportunity costs and potential damages due to leak of IP.
Yes, they could’ve get rid of it by, I don’t know, returning it to them. As they promised in writing they would do. That’s theft. Mistakes are human, this was negligence. They knew they made a mistake and doubled down, and made it worse. It’s not trivial, it’s theft and corporate espionage if the prototype landed in the wrong hands. I don’t get how can anyone lick the boots of a hundred million company by minimizing their negligence and unethical actions.
And why should I care? Billet send in their prototype for some free advertisement and it backfired. The fact that this kind of advertainment is what the whole tech journalism industry runs on is worthy of criticism, but this little fuck up is so utterly irrelevant.
It matters because that was a one off prototype that probably cost thousands to manufacture. Even the lost time and opportunity cost of LTT keeping it for months can absolutely kill a company’s chances. It doesn’t matter if it was irrelevant to the LTT audience, or if Linus thought it was a stupid product. It was made by two dudes who wanted to see something brought into the world that didn’t previously exist.
No one bats an eye at $800 artisan keyboards, even if they function the exact same as a $50 one. They look cool, or they feel nice, or whatever justification people make to themselves. It’s not for one influencer to decide “this is stupid, I want you to make something else”
Yup you’re a moron.
They are a startup, it’s their prototype, LTT had loan of it, not ownership. Most companies that do this end up broke after the lawsuit and my god I hope Billet presses this one for all LTT are worth.
Can’t tell if troll or moron