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This has been brewing as a side project since March last year when I first did the chart of the 200 most popular flash drives.…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Shoppers comparing gadgets","inferred",[61,65],{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"8907760","emilioolivares","I love this, it's a great way to look at all products at the same time and just hover over them to get details. I would be nice if you included a link to a product review, + a…",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"8907762","lettergram","Making money off the affiliate links, smart. I like the layout and what not as well. I would prefer a side-by-side when comparing say 2 or 3 different devices.",{"value":70,"source":51,"evidence":71},"Earns money from Amazon affiliate links",[72,73],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"8907844","bshimmin","The design is a bit underwhelming, and I'm not 100% sure the highlight\u002Fdismiss thing works all that well. 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But things like PPI are meaningless to me so you will lose a lot of people with that. Also it doesn't work very well on an iPhone 6, the sliders were incredibly…",{"value":119,"source":51,"evidence":120},"Prices come only from Amazon, some are wrong",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"8909252","tmuir","Nice site. A big problem I see is that it only uses Amazon for pricing. This results in the Nexus 6 being listed as 70% more expensive than the Google Play Store. Kind of defeats…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"8908826","Yeri","(your Google Nexus 6 price is all wrong; http:\u002F\u002Fwww.productchart.com\u002Fsmartphones\u002F)",{"value":130,"source":51,"evidence":131},"Specs sometimes differ from Amazon listings",[132],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"8908193","jusob","I like it. But the specs displayed on your website do not always match the specs from Amazon. Example: Dell Inspiron i5547-15001sLV 15.6-Inch listed with 16GB on your website,…",{"value":137,"source":51,"evidence":138},"Missing reviews and ratings for buying decisions",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"8907763","colinramsay","Great! One thing, and I don't know how you'd necessarily resolve this, but specifications aren't the be-all and end-all of buying a gadget: a lot of it is taking the time to read…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"8907798","Doches","This. I suspect that far fewer people buy phones\u002Flaptops\u002Fgadgets based purely on specs and price, which is all that's on display here. For pure commodities this makes total sense…",[148,156,162,170,176],{"value":149,"source":51,"evidence":150},"Add Amazon ratings or reviews to items",[151,152],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"8908496","stared","It would be great if you could add Amazon rating. 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