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Two ex-Apple rock stars have raised $30m to build the next iPhone
- parkaboy 6y agoTheir website is almost satirical levels of Silicon Valley hype.
- notadog 6y agoLink for the curious: https://hu.ma.ne/ https://hu.ma.ne/
- rvz 6y agoYes. It's straight from the same playbook. 'ex-FAAMNG employees raises $30M to create new rockstar startup to build the next iPhone. (Whatever that means)'. They never show you the product and give you the same silly 'what if' video and that's it, if they do then they will rarely ship it to you or later fail to do so. Remember Essential? Look at the hype from Techcrunch and the press: [0][1][2][3][4][5][6] Now look at it. [7] $300M and went bust, hype deflated and shutdown. Rinse and repeat. This is no different. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/andy-rubins-essential-has-reportedly-raised-300-million/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/andy-rubins-essential-has-... [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/24/how-essential-is-taking-on-giants-with-a-small-batch-smartphone/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/24/how-essential-is-taking-on... [2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/04/how-the-essential-phone-won-me-over-completely/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/04/how-the-essential-phone-wo... [3] https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/essential-reportedly-only-shipped-88000-phones-in-2017/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/essential-reportedly-only-... [4] https://www.theregister.com/2017/07/21/essential_phone_out_soon/ https://www.theregister.com/2017/07/21/essential_phone_out_s... [5] https://www.ibtimes.com/essential-phone-still-not-shipping-andy-rubin-keeps-mum-amid-delay-2564003 https://www.ibtimes.com/essential-phone-still-not-shipping-a... [6] https://www.axios.com/android-founder-phone-company-essential-shut-down-73b83ef8-921f-4acd-b4c6-f43f5b4abcef.html https://www.axios.com/android-founder-phone-company-essentia... [7] https://www.essential.com/ https://www.essential.com/