So far with every TE product that showed up here it was pretty obvious what its purpose was. Until now. What does this do? :-)
Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing?
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#22Cynical pessimism is easy and lame - it doesn’t make you sound smart, I like to see people try new things.
Every new thing has these sorts of articles written about it, they’re best to just ignore.
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#23I'm not even here for the "AI creation" horseshit. I just want a better general assistant that's smarter than Siri that can handle task-keeping, calendaring, and reminders better. And I like that it's "push to talk". It listens on my command, not on the whims of a voice query in mid-air. I'll give this a crack because I'm part of the weird population that likes "stand-alone" appliances for things. It's got a certain…
If the "Rabbit OS" cloud service could be self-hosted, then I'd be all for it.
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#24Teenage Engineering does interesting and good work. Similar to Kano, they have very good modern design ideas and they produce actual devices. That's the best thing about this useless evil thing. It exists in the world and can provide inspiration for others to work on. Another positive-ish thing to say would be is that this device is likely going to increase in value. Not because its popular but because it is going to…
Hope they can inspire someone to make a left-handed version.
I admire your dedication to finding positive things, but if this particular cloud-dependent chunk of plastic appreciates in value I’ll eat my Audrey.
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#25Why hate? Just don’t buy. The author is a child. Just more ragebait as usual. I do love how people complain about clickbait yet ragebait appears in the front page regularly. There you go - that’s why clickbait is a thing. Techies are not immune
Why hate? Just don't read.
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#26My question is what happens when you veer off the happy path for a given task? Like if your hotel cancels, or thinks you didn't pay and you did? Seems like disasters waiting to happen.
I wouldn't even trust that it had booked the hotel on the correct date, or with my breakfast or room preferences. I'd need to go double check everything it did anyway, so what's the point.
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#27Why hate? Just don’t buy. The author is a child. Just more ragebait as usual. I do love how people complain about clickbait yet ragebait appears in the front page regularly. There you go - that’s why clickbait is a thing. Techies are not immune
Why hate? Just don't read. Obviously people will sometimes express their opinions on societal trends and products, especially in their blogs.
Hahahah, you beat me to it. +1
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#28It seems to me the author of this article is going to have a tough time in the coming brave new world. I do love the writing style and wit though and Im even inclined to agree. Still, AI-ALL-THE-THINGS is coming. Imagine a Siri/Alexa that actually DOES STUFF.
Is AI going to make the important decisions like who the person should vote for and actually cast that vote too? Seems like a risk when the next generation will grow up outsourcing most of their decisions to AI and then need to figure out how to make the important ones on a reduced experience base. Definitely need to be brave for what is likely to come.
"Is AI going to make the important decisions like who the person should vote for and actually cast that vote too?" - Funny you mention that use case - I know for a fact that its being worked on right now (at least the "who to vote for" portion). The younger generation has allowed TikTok to talk them into seeing how many laundry pods they can eat ... so yeah things are going to get increasingly stupid most likely.
To your point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
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#29It seems to me the author of this article is going to have a tough time in the coming brave new world. I do love the writing style and wit though and Im even inclined to agree. Still, AI-ALL-THE-THINGS is coming. Imagine a Siri/Alexa that actually DOES STUFF.
I seem to recall similar statements about EFTs, crypto, Web3, Metaverse, Second Life, and many others.
Some of this will probably shake out to be real long term but a lot less than people think right now.
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#30Teenage Engineering does interesting and good work. Similar to Kano, they have very good modern design ideas and they produce actual devices. That's the best thing about this useless evil thing. It exists in the world and can provide inspiration for others to work on. Another positive-ish thing to say would be is that this device is likely going to increase in value. Not because its popular but because it is going to…
Their Pocket Operators are great although, as the article points out, the rest of their audio products are incredibly expensive for what you get.