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I think also part of what makes it so bad is the mismatch between expectations, price, marketing, and reality. If you bought a pair of $10 headphones from ebay

I think also part of what makes it so bad is the mismatch between expectations, price, marketing, and reality. If you bought a pair of $10 headphones from ebay and they suck, it's not shocking. But when you have a $700 device, with hundreds of millions in funding, and a ton of marketing about it being the smartphone killer and the future of computing, yet the device is total junk, that makes it worse in a way than other junk marketed as junk.

paxys 3y ago
$700 device which requires a $25 monthly subscription to use, let's not forget.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  And charged multiple times through each day.
- al_borland 3y ago
  It’s like buying a whole smartphone and service, but only getting the voice assistant. Who wouldn’t think that’s a bad deal?
rickdeckard 3y ago
I do wonder what would have happened if Humane would have launched the product as an invitation-only beta with a different pricing-scheme. The hardware is good enough to test it. Power-consumption, projector and voice-cloud-voice latency is too high. But that's probably all forgivable if it's a "public beta" with the clear statement that this is not a final mass-product...