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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I remember being downvoted heavily on Reddit when I called this stupid mostly down to how limited it is and the silly subscription.

Kinda hoping now all those downvoters purchased one because they deserve it.

[–] natecox 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I think it would be really cool if it worked like they wanted us to believe it would. Like, it could be one of those “change the way we live our day to day lives” events to the like of of smartphones becoming mainstream.

This device was never going to live up to that or get anywhere close to it, but I can’t blame people for really wanting to believe.

[–] RustyWizard 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Huh? What do you think they promised that wasn’t delivered that would’ve made this anything that a phone app couldn’t do better? Fundamentally, talking to things sucks, but phones support that anyway. The gimmicky interface is worse than just a touch screen. You have to wear the fucking thing which makes it useless if I’m in bed or whatever. The AI was shit but could just as easily be integrated into an app. It was a shit product from design to execution.

[–] natecox 4 points 5 months ago

A device that can do all of the things a phone can do without needing to find and install apps, that can learn from your usage patterns in effective and practical ways, and is unobtrusive to wear all the time sounds pretty fucking cool to me.

That is the promised future that AI devices are selling; I thought I was pretty clear that this device was never going to deliver on it.

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