Anker Re[Charge] Livestream

#34

It is certainly better than a lot of tech companies where it appears that they name their products by letting their cat roll around on the keyboard :slight_smile:

Excited about the new larger prime chargers and new power banks as well.

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#35

Short answer is everyone is biassed.

Reality is too complex to know everything accurately and completely, we each have a unique subset of knowledge and are wrong about something. So a diversity of people with radically different perspectives and backgrounds leads to less-wrong collective conclusions.

So the long answer is I like a diversity of views, not just journalists. It’s not anti-journalists, just anti “only journalists”.

And I like those who owned and used a product perspective, as you find out more.

Hence: community matters.

Particularly so for Anker where ultimately you’re seeking to sell products for money, you’ll sell more, be more successful with better products, which comes from feedback, and earlier feedback accelerates products improvement.

So combining early engagement with a community means a win-win.

Hopefully that better explains a “only journalists?” view. It’s not a bias, it’s the opposite of bias.

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#36

Ugh… caught the replay of the live event… while glad to see innovation, this did not have the polish of a well put together event, imho. ~35 min delay to start, and an uncomfortable pair doing the intro… :roll_eyes:

Data shown on slides conflicted with speaker on occasion. 10-24w range on solar input vs. spoken 12-24w range…. up to 98% plastic elimination… yet stated as definitive 98% on lib 4 NC…. alas, picking on the niggly things… stopped watching after the mars 3 spot…

Will be interesting to see how the solar wall launches… op range seems ok, -20C to 55C

Good to see @SoundcoreAdam again!

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#37

I’m tolerant of live human error - none perfect.

I’m less tolerant of bad engineering. Another thread to be created with more photos…

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#38

Those who do engineering are normally human beings.
I don’t think that engineering is done by AI meanwhile.:grin:

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#39

Now products announced, I’ve put my thoughts and suggestions here

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#40

I’ve seen so many terrible live streams from other brands the uncomfortableness of the pair didn’t even register. Everything I had seen said it was supposed to start at 7PM EST, so it was only around 15 minutes late; however starting the livestream early at 6:45 didn’t help.

Yeah, there were several slip-ups, but those happen, we are human after all.

One recommendation: I would suggest that Anker have an actual Anker employee give the intro and outtros instead of an actor; not that the gentleman is bad, but people on the livestream were confused about who that person was.

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#41

“7PM EST, so it was only around 15 minutes late; however starting the livestream early at 6:45 didn’t help.”

This is correct. We were on the other side of a curtain and didn’t even notice they had begun the livestream at 6:45, but it was scheduled for 7. As soon as they beckoned us (7:05ish?) everyone was seated within a couple of minutes. The production company appeared fully set-up, so I’m not sure what caused the delay.

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#42

@ktkundy @Matt_Tabor and I made a similar observations. SPECIFICALLY, when looking at the new cooler, powercore and the questionable necessity for the solix inverter. There were several points where we basically said “just because the engineers could, doesn’t mean they should” have done xyz. This is of course FAR from an Anker exclusive issue. I work at a polytechnic university and fully understand how difficult it is blend demand, marketing, finance and engineering to produce a final product.

I’ll never let go of the way the battery door on the cooler doesn’t securely close…The unnecessary fingerprint magnet piano black plastic on various accouterments, in the year of our lord 2023…Why the wheels attached to equipment marketed to be used outside are falling short of inspiring confidence…The lack of a [redacted] for the [redacted], although I appreciate the strength of the magnets being used this time, but I am not sure they’ll replace my current Liberty 2 Pros.

We were clearly interacting with marketers/brand reps and not engineers. Speaking only for myself, I felt some of the critiques the Anker reps heard provided them with some validation of their own concerns.

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#43

Thanks for the update. I think that is where there is a lot of contention (at least for me). Anker needs to be able to take feedback from technical users; it is a bit disheartening to hear that there is even some perceived concerns from other departments that might be ignored.

#44

I’m reminded of this when engineers vs marketing don’t align.

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#45

Did you 3 get on camera? Matt, Kaitlyn, Robert?

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#46

If you asked nicely you’d likely get a better picture of us :rofl::rofl::rofl:. These look like they are from a 1995 episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

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#47

That’s fine, I’ve avoided cameras ever since that grassy knoll embarrassment.

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#48

Nice to see some Anker members there. Hope all enjoyed it

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#49

I feel the same. I use my name in vain with affection as well. Am glad it went well and sorry I missed it.

#50

LOL! The vision of the cat cracked me up.

#51

We missed you though! I hope to be extending invitations to both brand and community events.

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#52

For sure! We limited invites to community people who had participated in Community Office Hours:)

#53

I am not saying I should have been invited, but it would have been nice, if asked. I’ve been in the Anker Community since the beginning. I fell off from involvement recently, when Anker themselves fell off on here as well.

I covered the 1st Anker event in NYC and I hold a valid NY City-issued Press Credential, which is pretty official over here :slight_smile:

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