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justnoicetoday at 12:07 PM5 repliesview on HN

The CEO of this brand once portrayed himself as a first-time entrepreneur, launching a small batch of products at extremely low prices, then raising prices and quickly rolling out new models. But earlier this year, one of his competitors publicly presented a series of allegations that were subsequently substantiated, including that he had actually been involved in multiple previous ventures with a highly questionable track record, and that some of the products' key specifications had been seriously misrepresented. The company later apologized for the inaccurate specifications, claiming that the misinformation was unintentional. However, it offered neither a recall nor any meaningful compensation to affected customers. Soon afterward, the brand launched yet another new product, only for customers to discover after receiving it that the promotional images were also misleading. At the end of the day, this brand's business model seems to be little more than assembling cheap off-the-shelf components and using aggressive social media marketing to convince people that they need its products.


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embedding-shapetoday at 1:20 PM

Care to link these allegations and substantiated proof/evidence? Not that I don't believe you, but would be nice to read the original source of this, even if it happens to be in another language than English.

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shinycodetoday at 12:54 PM

X4 pro launched in July and I could buy it for 89€ now it costs 119€. And I bought the x3 in June for 50€ now it’s 89€.

So yeah that’s the strategy

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phoronixrlytoday at 1:23 PM

> including that he had actually been involved in multiple previous ventures with a highly questionable track record

Considering Kindle's Bezos who's had a pristine track record?

jacknewstoday at 12:27 PM

So who is the original manufacturer of these readers?

boxedtoday at 12:15 PM

Ok... but.. are there other companies with comparable consumer level products? If so, can you name some?

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