• Teknikal@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I remember being downvoted heavily on Reddit when I called this stupid mostly down to how limited it is and the silly subscription.

    Kinda hoping now all those downvoters purchased one because they deserve it.

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      5 months ago

      I think it would be really cool if it worked like they wanted us to believe it would. Like, it could be one of those “change the way we live our day to day lives” events to the like of of smartphones becoming mainstream.

      This device was never going to live up to that or get anywhere close to it, but I can’t blame people for really wanting to believe.

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        Huh? What do you think they promised that wasn’t delivered that would’ve made this anything that a phone app couldn’t do better? Fundamentally, talking to things sucks, but phones support that anyway. The gimmicky interface is worse than just a touch screen. You have to wear the fucking thing which makes it useless if I’m in bed or whatever. The AI was shit but could just as easily be integrated into an app. It was a shit product from design to execution.

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          5 months ago

          A device that can do all of the things a phone can do without needing to find and install apps, that can learn from your usage patterns in effective and practical ways, and is unobtrusive to wear all the time sounds pretty fucking cool to me.

          That is the promised future that AI devices are selling; I thought I was pretty clear that this device was never going to deliver on it.

      • UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        The thing is, even if the device was doing what they said it would do… It could be an app. In fact it makes more sense. No double network subscription, no need for expensive hardware on top of the one you already carry, expanded acess to the user’s data, better hardware in some case (camera for example), more efficient, more integration with other tools (from basic stuff like a calendar to gps etc), and so on.

        If AI was a juice the humane pin would be it’s juicero.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t get it. It was so easy to call this, Rabbit, home 3D TVs, the Fire Phone, etc.

      What do we see that these execs don’t? Why can I call flops 5 seconds after hearing them but they go on to spend millions to develop products which go nowhere?

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      5 months ago

      The subscription makes sense for having LTE access. That’s not really a problem nor hard to justify. Even the concept sounds pretty solid overall. But everything from price to execution was just wildly bad.

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          And my 5G unlimited plan is $70/mo, but can go as low as $20/mo for 4G prepaid on my network. Seems reasonable to me.

          For clarity, the reasonable part is that the pin network subscription is ~$20 here. Not that $20 for 4G is reasonable but that’s a different issue than what we are discussing specifically.