the home hub looks interesting, but it seems the main selling point is it can work with other devices? so does it mean I can do things like asking Alexa to stream my itunes library on chromecast?
Essential Products – Andy Rubin’s new hardware company
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#32Earlier 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.
I still find the website overdesigned, of course, but the technical execution worked perfectly for me.
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#33Chrome 40, so all I see is menu headings. Anyone got a summary?
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#34Hope the product is better than the website....
Website seemed quite functional for me on my galaxy 7. What were your gripes?
(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.
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#35I'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?
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.
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#36I'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.
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#38This 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…
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#39The 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.