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This way they will just be forgotten.
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I agree. It looked like a solution in search of a problem. Which is very common when everyone has big hires screens and oodles of compute power in their pocket. What can a new entrant offer which couldn't be an app?
Workstations put a computer on your desk. Laptops put a computer in your backpack. Smartphones put a computer in your pocket. (I’m not sure what is next, but it’s coming, eventually.)
Getting computers smaller and smaller gets impractical in terms of user interface. A possibility is neural implants. But the other direction we’re already facing is just smarter everything with microprocessors everywhere. Each device does not need to run Android to be useful (or annoying, because not everything needs to get smart and adding processing is also adding new and exciting failure modes). But each device still integrates a computer.
They are cool but both Humane pin and the Rabbit R1 products were largely flops and failures. I do hope in the next 10-20 years this same tech will advance and actually work and be cool.
I guess I just don’t see the appeal over a smartphone. How often are your hands incapacitated where it warrants all the other advantages of that form factor? And the R1 form factor largely didn’t even have that advantage.
Even then, that use case is covered by Bluetooth headphones connected to a phone that can be either in a pocket or stowed safely 10m away.
A bit off topic perhaps but what's difficult about making this a product? Please forgive my ignorance. Its just a microphone, speaker, could be a Bluetooth controller and a battery, and have it go through your phone. Maybe a small local neural net to monitor for keyword locally. I guess it's a few more parts if you don't want it to go through your phone, but is that all that's happening here? What am I missing? Is th…
The reason for failure here is lack of a killer app. Everyone is excited, then when they get it it's a glorified todo list and maybe it can read your texts. This failure mode is quite common and we've seen it with other devices like smart glasses, the Rabbit R1 pin, I suspect openAI's pin is going to be similar, and so on. Your average non-tech-enthusiast consumer will need a real good reason to carry around a front-facing camera full time.
Wow, there’s so many levels of investigation and depth to getting this device opened. The short section on the eSIM seems like a story in of itself! Somewhat incredible people have this much dedicated focus.