Every web outlet and influencer with more than 1000 followers bought one. But that's all they're ever going to sell.

I'd buy you out but all I have is my 20 bucks from streaming music revenue and I'm going to spend that on beer.

okay but what if it could also set you on fire?

And bluetooth pins that allow you to talk to the AI in your pocket already exist. That's without that projector screen thing but still.

Sure sure, but this one is very close to your skin and vital organs and could burn you or just plain explode, so how about it?

The entire company was a pump and dump scheme. They're gonna continue the pump until dump or bankruptcy.

Don't forget about the dangerous batteries and looming recall (due to court action I'm sure)! They'll soon have ZERO customers, in a way.

So, if we do some sloppy rounding and say that the subscriptions make them 3 million a year . . . it'll only take a bit more than 330 years for anyone buying Humane at the asking price to break even. My cat could figure out that wasn't a good buy. (Of course, he'd prefer to invest in a tuna cannery . . .)

I could see Apple buying it. The form factor makes sense, it's the fact that it relies on AI and has its own cell connection are the main issues. If I could tap it and have Siri take dictation or take a picture of something to get more information it would be pretty neat.

That’s why they made it a pin.

Sure you can sell an app on the App Store, but most people won’t pay more than 5 bucks for an app, and even that’s stretching it. And the subscription market is already over saturated. So how do you make a boatload of cash? Sell overpriced hardware that needs to be “upgraded” every year or 2 to use new features, and include a subscription to use the thing in the first place.

They wanted to pull an Apple and lock people into their hardware ecosystem. I guarantee there was a plan for them to release an AI phone in the next 5 years if this thing did well.

What they missed is Apple products are generally pleasant to use on a daily basis. From what everyone said, this thing was hot garbage and slow to respond to queries.

There's totally a use case for a peripheral like a watch... But it's only so you don't have to pull your phone out of your pocket.

You can't conclude that from this. The fact that there was hype and excitement about this supports an interest in the concept. This was simply utterly horrible execution and that is all.

I listen to Better Offline and I’m as jaded and cynical as the rest of us, but even I find some of his episodes too much to take.

Like he has no impartiality at all, particularly his takes on LLMs. Our small company of software developers and engineers have saved so much time with Visual Studio CoPilot. The fact is there are uses where they’re extremely useful; just maybe not as the MSM portrays it.