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Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?

Did not work in Firefox for me, despite allowing all scripts to run. Plus, as a subjective note, I perceived it overall too designy, i.e. more focus on the "coolness" than the information itself.

Huh? Works for me (FF 53 on Arch Linux). I have uMatrix set to allow only first-party JS by default, but they play nice and serve all JS from the same domain (essential.com)

I still find the website overdesigned, of course, but the technical execution worked perfectly for me.

Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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Hope the product is better than the website....

Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?

(a) It is one of the worst abuses of parallax scrolling. Everything is moving about in a chaotic, flickering fashion with far too many sections. And you have text blocks always covering the images.

(b) It is showing four products on the one page. Four. And seemingly jumping between them.

(c) Almost all of the text is very hard to read. It's light grey on dark grey. Dark grey on light grey.

(d) It doesn't even render at all on Safari/OSX.

Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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I'm drowning in a pretty website with no summary of what I am looking at.

It's literally the same concept as Apple's Mac Pro website, and there's a picture of a phone you haven't seen before when you open it. How obvious does it need to be?

> a picture of a phone you haven't seen before

To be fair, all phones look basically the same. Not saying that there aren't differences, but most phones are difficult to tell apart at first glance.

Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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They seem to avoid mentioning the version of Android they are running - the specs only say "Android".

I'd like to be exited about this, but this uncertainty combined with the fact that their security personnel is a team of dogs[1] makes it quite hard for me.

[1]https://www.essential.com/about

Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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This is the first paragraph that shows up when seeing the site in mobile safari: > I know people are going to ask me a lot of questions about why I started this company. Why didn’t I just travel the world, ride my motorcycle, tinker with my robots, hang out at my bakery with friends and family. And to be honest I still do ask myself that sometimes…but not too often. 1. Maybe I'm not geeky enough, but I don't know who…

I know who he is and I cringed at the humblebrag.

Re: Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company

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I like the idea of tougher phones, but to me it misses the mark to talk about the titanium phone case surviving corner drop tests, it's the glass that's the problem.

The number of people I've seen wandering around with cracked phone screens from drops is quite high, and is the reason I put a case which covers the front on every phone I buy.

So having no phone case here just means you get the usual after market screen protectors and risk of cracked glass that most other phones suffer from.

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