EU new labeling, which just became mandatory, requires companies to list specific test data to consumers but Apple has found numerous ambiguities in the test requirements.
I mean, we don’t find it unfair but it should be. It seems legit just because SUVs and pick-ups have been normalized as everyday cars, unfortunately.
These labels should be useful for customers to decide between products: if I look for a tablet and iPad and Galaxy Pad are both in G range, I couldn’t care less for a Kindle with A efficiency. They are indeed different product categories.
But it’s not unfair, no more than saying an pick-up can carry more weight than a smaller, more efficient car. If you want the bigger carrying capacity you can still choose the pick-up (especially in an actual professional context where you might need the extra capacity) but you can’t say it’s more efficient.
I agree that on an objective, scientific and absolute level, you can compare them, but the usefulness for a customer of such a scale is zero. I want as much as a detailed scale on city-cars in order to discern the best among them, and the same for trucks. Expanding the scale too much looses the detail on the finer level.
I mean, we don’t find it unfair but it should be. It seems legit just because SUVs and pick-ups have been normalized as everyday cars, unfortunately. These labels should be useful for customers to decide between products: if I look for a tablet and iPad and Galaxy Pad are both in G range, I couldn’t care less for a Kindle with A efficiency. They are indeed different product categories.
But it’s not unfair, no more than saying an pick-up can carry more weight than a smaller, more efficient car. If you want the bigger carrying capacity you can still choose the pick-up (especially in an actual professional context where you might need the extra capacity) but you can’t say it’s more efficient.
I agree that on an objective, scientific and absolute level, you can compare them, but the usefulness for a customer of such a scale is zero. I want as much as a detailed scale on city-cars in order to discern the best among them, and the same for trucks. Expanding the scale too much looses the detail on the finer level.