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Re:Essential Raises $300M by revelation on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:01PM (#14517854)
But they have a product. It's a smartphone, in a saturated, downhill headed market.
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Re:Essential Raises $300M by jonknee on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:24PM (#14517968)
They have another product as well, it's not a smartphone.

https://www.essential.com/home

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Re:Essential Raises $300M by jpm_sd on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:18PM (#14518263)
It's like Google Home, without the enormous company full of brilliant software engineers behind it?
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Re:Essential Raises $300M by Apocryphon on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:37PM (#14518359)
But with the brilliant software engineer who played a large role in making that company enormous.
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Re:Essential Raises $300M by seoseokho on Thursday June 08, 2017 @07:13PM (#14517911)
I 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.
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