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

luciole@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  - JCPhoenix@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Jfc. Can’t, or rather won’t, refurbish? That’s beyond stupid.
    
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    Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Maybe they really believed that this shit was so good that nobody would ever return or even sell it to third parties in the future
    
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