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Sorry for being negative, but Humane as-is is going nowhere. It can’t do video calls, it sucks. You’d have to have an iPhone and one of these. AirPods Pro 5 wil

Sorry for being negative, but Humane as-is is going nowhere. It can’t do video calls, it sucks. You’d have to have an iPhone and one of these. AirPods Pro 5 will do 99% of what this can do through voice. Sorry for saying something irrelevant, but I wish Apple would put e-ink (or equivalent) displays on the back of iPhones and iPads.

concinds 3y ago
I have no idea how they manage to recruit talent. They're trying to generate hype, yet there's no hype, just universal criticism. See here, see Twitter, see the comments on that TED Talk speech. No one's buying into it. Plus, I really hate how "we used to work at Apple" is their main marketing strategy. They wouldn't need to do that if the product was any good. Which it's not, because the concept is a gimmick. It's supposed to be "more humane" and blend into the background, yet palm projection and voice interaction are incredibly invasive and socially awkward. So is having a camera attached to your chest at all time. So again, how do they recruit? It's like watching a slow-motion trainwreck.
- pazimzadeh 3y ago
  I guess the British accent + ‘we worked at Apple’ goes a long way It also seems like a mobile version of what Bret Victor is working on. Could use that to hype it up.
amelius 3y ago
The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either.
- pazimzadeh 3y ago
  It wasn’t too shabby
- p_l 3y ago
  the 3G upgrade that also introduced app store felt positively clunky compared to some phones then in use. Arguably explosion of the App Store quickly turned into major differentiator
- paxys 3y ago
  Compared to its competition? It absolutely was.
  - m463 3y ago
    People don't remember it didn't have any apps.
    - Someone 3y ago
      It had apps (Maps, Contacts, Safari, to mention a few), but no third party ones (Maps used Google data, but AFAIK, was 100% written by Apple, and certainly was installed by Apple in the firmware image)
  - andrensairr 3y ago
    Nah. I was using a cheap Nokia 3230 in 2008 when looking for a replacement. the iPhone had just been released and it could not offer me a number of features I had been used to for years: - Video calling (they didn't get front facing camera for ages) - Video recording. Of any kind. - Picture messaging. I can't remember if they offered any kind of MMS support. - Voice commands (they didn't work terribly well but had been a feature of Nokia phones for ages) - Third party apps - Text copy/paste - About a week of battery charge, depending on use. So I bought an N95 instead, and had that for 8 years until it basically fell apart. Its original battery was still getting more life from a charge at this sorry stage than a new iPhone/Android replacement.
- WoodenChair 3y ago
  > The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either. The original iPhone was one of the first phones to have visual voicemail. That alone made it a revolution compared to the phone experience before it. Before iPhone you dialed some voicemail box and had to listen through 4 messages before you got to the one you cared about. Yeah if you weren't there it's hard to understand how bad of an experience it was.
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- rvba 3y ago
  The technology that came after Iphone 1 made it look uncapable, but at the time when it came out it was better than everything else - and it made you feel like you "live in the future". In my opinion some sort of this technology would be very useful. If not this, then something else. Being able to see the map on the car window, or a map when you walk, or information about products (something similar to Google lens but no hands). I can easily imagine warehouse workers using this to tell them which box of little chips to pick-up. Of course everyone talks about building completely automated warehouses, but still there are lots of non automatic ones.

concinds 3y ago

I have no idea how they manage to recruit talent. They're trying to generate hype, yet there's no hype, just universal criticism. See here, see Twitter, see the comments on that TED Talk speech. No one's buying into it. Plus, I really hate how "we used to work at Apple" is their main marketing strategy. They wouldn't need to do that if the product was any good. Which it's not, because the concept is a gimmick. It's supposed to be "more humane" and blend into the background, yet palm projection and voice interaction are incredibly invasive and socially awkward. So is having a camera attached to your chest at all time. So again, how do they recruit? It's like watching a slow-motion trainwreck.

pazimzadeh 3y ago
I guess the British accent + ‘we worked at Apple’ goes a long way It also seems like a mobile version of what Bret Victor is working on. Could use that to hype it up.

amelius 3y ago

The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either.

pazimzadeh 3y ago
It wasn’t too shabby
p_l 3y ago
the 3G upgrade that also introduced app store felt positively clunky compared to some phones then in use. Arguably explosion of the App Store quickly turned into major differentiator
paxys 3y ago
Compared to its competition? It absolutely was.
- m463 3y ago
  People don't remember it didn't have any apps.
  - Someone 3y ago
    It had apps (Maps, Contacts, Safari, to mention a few), but no third party ones (Maps used Google data, but AFAIK, was 100% written by Apple, and certainly was installed by Apple in the firmware image)
- andrensairr 3y ago
  Nah. I was using a cheap Nokia 3230 in 2008 when looking for a replacement. the iPhone had just been released and it could not offer me a number of features I had been used to for years: - Video calling (they didn't get front facing camera for ages) - Video recording. Of any kind. - Picture messaging. I can't remember if they offered any kind of MMS support. - Voice commands (they didn't work terribly well but had been a feature of Nokia phones for ages) - Third party apps - Text copy/paste - About a week of battery charge, depending on use. So I bought an N95 instead, and had that for 8 years until it basically fell apart. Its original battery was still getting more life from a charge at this sorry stage than a new iPhone/Android replacement.
WoodenChair 3y ago
> The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either. The original iPhone was one of the first phones to have visual voicemail. That alone made it a revolution compared to the phone experience before it. Before iPhone you dialed some voicemail box and had to listen through 4 messages before you got to the one you cared about. Yeah if you weren't there it's hard to understand how bad of an experience it was.
- deleted 3y ago
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rvba 3y ago
The technology that came after Iphone 1 made it look uncapable, but at the time when it came out it was better than everything else - and it made you feel like you "live in the future". In my opinion some sort of this technology would be very useful. If not this, then something else. Being able to see the map on the car window, or a map when you walk, or information about products (something similar to Google lens but no hands). I can easily imagine warehouse workers using this to tell them which box of little chips to pick-up. Of course everyone talks about building completely automated warehouses, but still there are lots of non automatic ones.