williamh

Kind of late for an April Fools joke.

sbdude said:

I love all these "tests". For a device as limited in production as this, it keeps perfectly good devices out of the hands of people who actually want them.

If you want one, go buy one. You get to decide what you do with it whether that be augmented reality, put it on the shelf, or find out if it blends.  The people who are destroying them are among the people who actually wanted them.  If that were not the case, they wouldn't have bought them.

Finding out if it's possible to damage a fragile object doesn't seem a very worthwhile pursuit, but I guess they have their reasons.

I assume at least some of those Youtubers will make back the cost of the device and then some with their teardown/destruction videos.  Still seems wrong but not irrational.

Not mentioned in the article but I think Girls State is a companion to a documentary released a few years ago called Boys State.   It's been a few years since I watched but I recall that one was pretty good and expect the new one to be as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boys_State_(film)

godofbiscuitssf said:

Great, a new torrent of misinformation just in time for election season.

You’d think people would get enough misinformation from the New York Times and the Washington Post that they wouldn’t need a new torrent.