biased, unethical or simply to stupid to understand journalists have influenced people's buying decisions for ages. It's true for cars, houses, food, and what not.

That also tends to drive prices down for things that are really good not just shiny and that's fine by me.

I'm happy that everybody is buying expensive crap just for the glitter. It's more stuff that doesn't connect well, needs complicated servicing for easy tasks, lot's of adapters that confuse users and so on. And that is a good source of income for a technical competent individual.

Also expensive crap goes out of style soon and that means more adapters, technical problems ...