I'm going to make another reply. I was winded and confused that you got so emotional, but maybe I was "cock swinging" and didn't realize it. I'll try to address the arguments as dispassionately as I can, and if I fuck up at that task then it's my own fault, I only hope someone can point out to me where and how.

In my own empirical analysis, I have a 100% correlation. Me and JTHipster agreed on these terms of discussion because we both have experience with at least part of the discussion.

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how is it that I'm not allowed to speak from my experience but you're allowed to invalidate what I have to say by asserting "I can't google it?"

I don't have direct access to the details of your empirical experience, only what you chose to divulge. As you pointed out, it's "I heard a story that..." I don't disrespect your perspective, but every product ever made always has at least one dissatisfied customer, so I have to turn to data. If I never bought anything that had at least one 1-star review on Amazon, I wouldn't buy very much from Amazon.

Yes, you and JTHipster appear to have a common experience. Okay, two data points. You've convinced me: Monoprice mice are shit. I hope that Monoprice gets their act together re: mice, because so many of their other products have impressed both me and many others, which is what I was incompetently attempting to show with those links.

I have evaluated monoprice's electronics to be shit through my own professional experience as a former audiovisual consultant that helped develop products for Rane, Mackie, Biamp, Symetrix, SLS, DBX and others.

No problem, you're an expert in this field. You've only described it as "shit" though, but it's difficult for me and probably everyone else to translate "shit" to something specific. Wear and tear? Sound fidelity? And to what degree?

Call me "bro" again.

I won't. It was an inept attempt at rhetorical flair. However, while Apple has presently used its buying power to monopsonize equipment for carving chassis out of aluminum blocks, in the future that manufacturing equipment will become both cheaper and more common, and products that are made this way--with more rigidity and fewer seams, screws and wearable parts--will become more common and inexpensive. They will be both cheap and more durable than equivalent designs that use welds and screws.

but you feel A-OK lecturing me for using personal experience in an argument with someone else.

I acted improperly. However, your argument with JT followed from a post that I wrote and posted on my own G+ account. Clearly, I assumed too much.