A quarter RGB keyboard for the price of half a MacBook Neo? Yeah this will sell like hot cakes...
It’s $230 vs. $699? That’s almost exactly a third, not half.
Codex Micro
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#72I'm curious who the target audience is. As a developer I already spend all day at my keyboard, so I'm not yet convinced dedicated hardware is faster than a desktop app. I'd love to hear from people who've actually used it.
I see it as another iteration of the wave that had everyone controlling agents directly from a chat app like slack. It isn't actually a more effective way to reach flow state, exchange information faster, and move your development projects forward to greater success, its simply a novel, oddly satisfying input mechanism, at least for the first day.
Which is no different than when the iphone first came out, the basic concept of touch screens was endlessly novel as an input and output device. That novelty did a lot more heavy lifting than what we can now see in hindsight was appropriate, because now many of us won't be able to control the temperature in our cars after the touch screen fails.
I think its the same underlying mechanism that explains why I, a person who has never recorded or mixed audio in a studio, and a person who can know for certain that purchasing a 24 channel mixing console isn't going to faclilitate my career change or even hobby development. But part of me is still viscerally certain that my life would be fuller if I purchased a 24 channel mixing console.
I don't need a legitimate reason to own a tool, or a problem I would fix with it, to fantasize about using that tool.
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#73It's not clear why this physical object is a better solution to the problem than, say, a window on your screen. Feels like more of a hobby project than something that provides $230 of value.
I know a lot of people who really like things like the Stream Deck. This seems similar to that kind of a concept. I'd probably take the Stream Deck over this though, its a good bit cheaper and each button has a little screen on it. Having some physical knobs is an interesting twist on it though. https://www.elgato.com/us/en/p/stream-deck
There is the Stream Deck Plus with physical knobs and a touch b... strip. :)
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#74This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw ( https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2 ). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.
Apple must be happy that they let Jony Ive go. What a letdown. (assuming this meh partnership rebranding had his participation)
Pretty sure this isn’t the secret Jonny Ive project.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't meant to sell like hot cakes. Work Louder is the keyboard equivalent of Teenage Engineering. They make expensive toys for silicon valley engineers.
So work louder is the new work smarter?
And very fitting in this case, too, with everybody having to use voice input. :)
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#76This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw ( https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2 ). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.
ooh Micro 2 is a lot cheaper, but doesn't seem to have individually addressable RGB keys unless I'm mistaken?
Update: did some research, found this thing for $39 https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-ek21
It's got 20 keys, hot-swappable, and individually addressable RGB.
And for an FOSS printable one, https://github.com/Dwin17/bento
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#77Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets? Regardless, device looks nice
> Is this the reason OpenAI decided to steal Apple hardware secrets?
Of course not.
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#781. looks nice, want.
2. lol, why is this $230
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#79This device should have been a blog post about how you can make this device with an Arduino/Pico and a 3D printer and Codex.
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#808th openai product named codex btw