• @[email protected]
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    1893 months ago

    “this is a company for grown ups.”

    That’s too bad. I was thinking of getting their phone when I needed a new one, I guess I’ll just add them to my mental list of companies to avoid.

    • @anon_8675309
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      773 months ago

      I’m a grown up. I’ve been remote for a decade. I’m pretty successful too.

      • @[email protected]
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        443 months ago

        Right? Imagine thinking that working in a cubicle is something to aspire to as a “grown up.” Fuck that. I’ll continue working from home, like an adult, thanks.

    • @[email protected]
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      473 months ago

      goddamn i read parts of the article trying to figure out which company… Im not a marketing guy, but nobody can tell me that “nothing” is marketable brand.

      • @Lost_My_Mind
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        223 months ago

        Allow me to introduce you to their main competitor, elon musk.

        Oh, I don’t mean competitor in the business market. I mean their main competitor for worlds least marketable brand identity.

        He took twitter, which had it’s own global brand awareness, and blundered it so bad that every media company refers to it as “X (formerly twitter)” because they know that if they had just put X, nobody would know what the hell they were talking about.

        And his other company is literally named “The Boring Company”. Where I assume they make disease, and murderous robots that are somehow racist.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 months ago

          It’s still unbelievable considering Twitter had made its way into other languages’ lexicon other than English. In Spanish, for example, the word “tuit” had been added officially in the dictionary. It had no competitors in brand awareness and all it took was a manchild with money to burn to take it all down.

    • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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      383 months ago

      Clearly it’s not a company for grown ups because you think they’re all children that won’t play together unless you cram them into a classroom and tell them, “Make nice.”

      • @candybrie
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        62 months ago

        Right? Grown ups can be trusted to get their work done without someone watching them all the time. It’s small children who need constant supervision.

    • @scarabic
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      52 months ago

      It baffles me because in many of the quotes they are clearly trying to be understanding and respectful toward those who disagree with this, but then they come out and call them children

      Ironically, that’s a really childish thing to do.

    • Boxscape
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      42 months ago

      “this is a company for grown ups.”

      When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. – C.S. Lewis

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Don’t I have one and it’s the only Android device I’ve owned that crashes and reboots almost daily. I can’t recall any other device ever doing it actually.

      This company’s all about the next gimmick and couldn’t care less about actually making decent phones.

      • @[email protected]
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        163 months ago

        Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren’t a division of Nothing and they don’t work on just earbuds.