The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week

[bebabalula@feddit.dk]

Rounded to the closest million that actually checks out…

[mutilationwave@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

A dollar, a hundred thousand dollars, these are just rounding errors compared to $250 million.

[kokesh@lemmy.world]

I think anyone paying for this must have been mentally challenged.

[sparky@lemmy.federate.cc]

I love that this meme can be fully depicted using emojis. I demand emoji versions of other common memes.

[doodledup@lemmy.world]

They probably lost a ton of money developing it. I bet nobody got overly rich with this endeavor.

[oldchicoale@lemmy.world]

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[demonvisual@lemm.ee]

I guess the buyer qualifies for a refund, I wonder if they would even want the device back

[kaydubell@lemmy.world]

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[fillicia@sh.itjust.works]

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[kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de]

Not a meme, but relevant https://youtu.be/-ZNoNHk8lbQ

[sunshine@lemmy.ml]

I'm curious what's the financial outcome here for the customers? I don't remember what Humane's price model for these pins was, and none of these articles are discussing it. For example... Eh I'll just look it up.

Oh my god it was $500-$700 up front plus a $25 monthly fee. That's just horrible; will the customers be getting refunds? [Looks it up] Nope.

https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ

[pyre@lemmy.world]

fuck you

[corrodedcranium@leminal.space]

It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though

[jeffool@lemmy.world]

I sometimes think of "who bought these?" I mean, I'm a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I'll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I'll never reference) before deleting my account. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I'll never own?

If I had that kind of money to waste, I'd just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.

And I don't even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I'd have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.

This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level... But here in reality I'm just left confused. "What were they thinking?"