1. Is Smok that bad or do people just love to hate them? 2. they seem to me like the iPhone or Samsung of vaping. They have so much out there and much of it to me anyway looks pretty cool. I'm just wondering where all the hate comes form and or 3. why other mods are seen as being better is all.
1. More issues/faulty products are seen with smok than most any other brand. Batteries exploding/catching fire, stop working, coils not lasting like they should, leaking, etc.
2. That's because of their marketing, and sometimes people are non the wiser. They crank out a new mod, kit, tank more often than the companies that make better vape gear. Always a different look, shape, color, some kind of gitchya gotchya, imo. They want their stuff to appeal to as many people as possible. Make it look cool. And they're in every B&M because they sell, not because they're better. To me, so much of their stuff is just the same thing only different, but not better than the latter. QC is bad,,as evidence shows from all the known issues,,and I suspect customer service. Probably because their too busy on the front end making another & selling product rather than improving it.
3. Because their are companies that care more about the end user and the products they sell, vs how many they can flood the market with. Evolv for example, DNA is a premium control chip/board manufacturer and they've made how many mods? 1? But companies that make mods will use their chip because its one of the state of the art available. They don't make a new every 3-4 months (smok), only about once a year or longer because what they make is feature full and stands the test of time along side the better mod makers. Voopoo Drag is well made and uses their own Gene chip and I've read enough to know it's a premium product as well. It doesn't have to be DNA or YiHi or Gene etc based to be a quality built mod. Cylon was a prime example of a mod that's much better than what smok makes, because you don't hear bad things about it. And there's more.
It doesn't cost a lot for quality, you just have to shop smart.
It puzzles me when someone(not you)wants to quit smoking, or continue to not smoke, but they want it for less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes.