• Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to potential fire safety risk from certain battery cells.
  • Issue isolated to specific battery cells in Charge Case Accessory, not related to hardware design.
  • Ai Pin, Battery Booster(s), and Charge Pad not affected, as disqualified vendor does not supply components for those products.
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73 points

As recompense, the company is offering two free months of its subscription service

Didn’t realise it was a subscription service too. How dim would you have to be to pay 700 dollars for a device on the understanding that it won’t work unless you keep paying 24 more dollars every single month?

People that buy subscriptions like this are a bigger problem than the companies that offer them

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28 points

Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.

I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the “AI Pin” device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

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what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

Nothing. Literally just using your phone is faster and easier.

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CPU: Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon (Snapdragon 720G to be exact, they don't list it on their page though)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Storage: 32GB eMMC

They have a bunch of other HW too (LTE modem, camera, voice etc.), but this does look like one of those “legal” silicon valley type scams.

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it could explicitly be a reasonable deterrent. if you double your price, but lose half your customers, you’ve made the same amount of money for half the work.

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3 points

I don’t like calling people “sheeple” but there’s nothing else that would fit for those who bought this.

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2 points

The game console industry proved this was a viable business plan a couple of decades ago.

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