Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  At what price point would this device be useful?

  given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.

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  • luciole@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d need to be paid a non negligible amount to try and wring some speck of usefulness out of this thing.

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    • JCPhoenix@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah that’d be cool if the opened it up and recreate it as a platform for people to mess around with it. Like a rPi or Arduino or something. Because in it’s current form…pretty much useless. But you’re right; they’d have to drop that price point significantly and incentivize people even if it were open.

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      • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Unfortunately the hardware is so closed that even themselves can’t reset the software for refurbishing

        theverge.com/…/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-t…

        Once a Humane Pin is returned, the company has no way to refurbish it, sources with knowledge of the return process confirmed. The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.

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• lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’ll probably be a brick in a few months, when the company goes bankrupt and the servers it relies on get shut down. So even getting it for free would be too expensive.

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