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>It's a mediocre flagship. So was Android. It's a bet on Rubin himself and the team he's recruited, not on the current product.
by jaredhansen 9y ago
>It's a mediocre flagship.
So was Android.
It's a bet on Rubin himself and the team he's recruited, not on the current product.
- revelation 9y agoBut they have a product. It's a smartphone, in a saturated, downhill headed market.
- seoseokho 9y agoI agree. Plus, I don't think this is differentiated from other flagships. Some people will like it others won't and I'm not sure if there is a moonshot in there to justify $300m.
- jonknee 9y agoThey have another product as well, it's not a smartphone. https://www.essential.com/home https://www.essential.com/home
- jpm_sd 9y agoIt's like Google Home, without the enormous company full of brilliant software engineers behind it?
- Apocryphon 9y agoBut with the brilliant software engineer who played a large role in making that company enormous.
- flashgordon 9y agoYeah I dont think the "phone" is their main play. Feels like they are trying to become the "one" iot platform that other big vendors cannot be?