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They have another product as well, it's not a smartphone. https://www.essential.com/home
It's like Google Home, without the enormous company full of brilliant software engineers behind it?
The long-term vision for Essential, Rubin said, is more closely aligned
with the Essential Home, which Rubin hopes you’ll put in your kitchen or
living room and use to control all the connected devices where you live.
[1] I mean truly open, the way he's done with Android. The Essential phone will already be more open that most phones on the market (unlocked bootloader), there's good reason to believe the Home will be too.
This one honestly makes no sense to me. How is this company being valued at a Billion dollars with a flagship product that is indistinguishable in features and price from any of its competitors. Who the hell is going to gamble on a new, no name brand for a $700 product that is exactly like the very reputable products from Apple, Samsung, and 50 other phone manufacturers?!?
Also, what is the benefit of a "bezel-less" phone? I always put cases on my phones, ever since I dropped one and spider-webbed the screen some years back. Without a bezel, the case will be covering up part of the screen...
I may be biased here, but I think almost everyone here is missing the point. Yes, Essential raised $300M because Andy Rubin is at the helm, but the bet is not on the phone they just launched. Its on the Smart Home. Here's a quote from Rubin himself: The long-term vision for Essential, Rubin said, is more closely aligned with the Essential Home, which Rubin hopes you’ll put in your kitchen or living room and use to co…
This one honestly makes no sense to me. How is this company being valued at a Billion dollars with a flagship product that is indistinguishable in features and price from any of its competitors. Who the hell is going to gamble on a new, no name brand for a $700 product that is exactly like the very reputable products from Apple, Samsung, and 50 other phone manufacturers?!?
Also, what is the benefit of a "bezel-less" phone? I always put cases on my phones, ever since I dropped one and spider-webbed the screen some years back. Without a bezel, the case will be covering up part of the screen...
Not all of us are clumsy with our expensive and fragile possessions.
I may be biased here, but I think almost everyone here is missing the point. Yes, Essential raised $300M because Andy Rubin is at the helm, but the bet is not on the phone they just launched. Its on the Smart Home. Here's a quote from Rubin himself: The long-term vision for Essential, Rubin said, is more closely aligned with the Essential Home, which Rubin hopes you’ll put in your kitchen or living room and use to co…
I may be biased here, but I think almost everyone here is missing the point. Yes, Essential raised $300M because Andy Rubin is at the helm, but the bet is not on the phone they just launched. Its on the Smart Home. Here's a quote from Rubin himself: The long-term vision for Essential, Rubin said, is more closely aligned with the Essential Home, which Rubin hopes you’ll put in your kitchen or living room and use to co…
That's good perspective. My followup question is: why build the phone, then...because it's the remote control?
This one honestly makes no sense to me. How is this company being valued at a Billion dollars with a flagship product that is indistinguishable in features and price from any of its competitors. Who the hell is going to gamble on a new, no name brand for a $700 product that is exactly like the very reputable products from Apple, Samsung, and 50 other phone manufacturers?!?
Andy created the extremely popular Sidekick phones and Android OS.
I'm not knocking Mr. Rubin and I'm not saying I could have done anything anywhere near as successful myself. I couldn't have. He's clearly more talented and motivated than I am.
But, I also wonder:
Is Android anything but the number one, huge outlier in his business life? Isn't it plainly evident, even now, that Android is the biggest business success Mr. Rubin will ever accomplish?
If Mr. Rubin is truly a powerful, free-thinking force for life-enhancing technological innovation, uh, why did he go away for multiple years and ... come back with ... another phone?
Again, I'm not saying I'm as good as he is. Very far from it. But, isn't way more skepticism in order?
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Perhaps Rubin's end-game is to do a fork of Android that would break away reliance on Google and then be acquired by Samsung for a few billions.
How? I can't see how fragmentation can be good for anyone. The web has made progress since the jar days but even if you go the web route, you are still a serf (to continue the analogy that we are all serfs sorry couldn't find the link). I wouldn't support a different app store that competes with Google for control of Android.
This one honestly makes no sense to me. How is this company being valued at a Billion dollars with a flagship product that is indistinguishable in features and price from any of its competitors. Who the hell is going to gamble on a new, no name brand for a $700 product that is exactly like the very reputable products from Apple, Samsung, and 50 other phone manufacturers?!?
Also, what is the benefit of a "bezel-less" phone? I always put cases on my phones, ever since I dropped one and spider-webbed the screen some years back. Without a bezel, the case will be covering up part of the screen...