Andy Rubin’s plan for his Amazon Echo killer sounds absolutely crazy

Andy Rubin’s Essential company unveiled two products earlier this week: the Essential Phone that should launch later this month, and Essential Home, an Amazon Echo competitor. The latter is Rubin’s most daring device of the two, as it comes bundled with a crazy, idealistic idea from its creator.Rubin wants Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and everyone else in the tech business to play “nice,” as CNET explains it. That is, all these tech giants that already make products th