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I suspect anyone who works in tech is completely unsurprised. Sure, the tech exists to make this thing possible, but it requires an Apple-sized company to exec
by wepple 3y ago
I suspect anyone who works in tech is completely unsurprised.
Sure, the tech exists to make this thing possible, but it requires an Apple-sized company to execute on it, and even then it’s utility would be doubtful
There’s been a lot of pulling back on smart speakers because they’re not quite where they need to be - and this promised far far more than a smart speaker from a tiny new company.
The question is: did they believe they own hype or know it’s a sham?
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoThere are a lot of assumptions that have to hold, for basic functionality of this product. For example: an always-on connection. By the looks of it, this device uses 4g, and doesn't support 5g, so over time we might expect service to get worse as telecoms build out their 5+g networks and leave the 4g ones behind.
- sdenton4 3y agoI think they just want to advertise all the patents they filed and get bought.
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- harryp_peng 3y agojust look at it - perplexity wrapper with native hardware. perplexity has vision! and besides perplexity, it just uses some simple function calling to get weather etc. I can build that in a day. as of the ultimate vision, it is not yet clear, and it would be dumb for anyone to get into this "AI phone replacement" business. There are far better use cases tho, which are clear to execute, like Schiffman.
- skywhopper 3y agoThey want to get enough attention to get acquired. Meanwhile I’m sure they believe their own hype to some extent, but it’s very easy to delude yourself when billions of dollars are on the line.
- harryp_peng 3y agoI cannot believe this paradigm, how new multi million dollar startups are basic wrappers that can be built by anyone interested enough in less than a day
- paxys 3y agoNot even an Apple-sized company will be able to successfully execute on it if the customer doesn't want the device to begin with. Look at VR headsets, for example. All the biggest tech behemoths burning through billions haven't been able to make the device category work, simply because no one wants to sit at home with a bulky headset strapped to their head shut off from their family and the outside world. Similarly a little box pinned to your chest projecting a display on your palm showing the weather makes for a good tech demo, but ultimately there is no real world use case for this device.
- kelsey98765431 3y agoThe purpose of headsets in the commercial product category is an attempt to subsidize development of military visors. the worlds largest customer, the federal government, definitely wants this.
- ergl 3y agoAnyone that has used Siri would tell you that not even Apple could make this work
- jerlam 3y agoHalf of this review is my exact same experience when trying out the Apple Watch eight years ago.
- MyFirstSass 3y agoI as a single dev who browsed r/locallama a bit the past 6 months could put together a crude small AI sys with or without say a 3b model that could: Set an alarm, Create a reminder, Or even attempt some of the more advanced features like querying local business. The fact that it can't even set an alarm or create a reminder? Like what the actual? Solo devs are already doing way more advanced stuff than this, it doesn't even take a small startup. What takes an Apple sized company is creating something that can access many other platforms, buy for you, put together bulletproof many step processes and execute on them safely etc. But most of these failures are like basic basic stuff. I do not understand how they can release a product like this.