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  • Apple drops to fourth place in China's smartphone sales

    CalamanderCalamander
    FWIW Huawei is a phone maker, not a "local reseller" - they make some of the best Android phones, unfortunately got banned in the US for political reasons. 

    Honor is a Huawei sub-brand to sort of get around the restrictions, although it seems Huawei doesn't really care all that much about the US / EU market at the moment.
    avon b7muthuk_vanalingamtokyojimu

  • Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription

    CalamanderCalamander
    Well, this is interesting. 

    Unless they are too early, this is an obvious winner - productivity wise likely better than iPhone which is amazing. 

    In terms of entertainment, it's clearly worse, you r Tik Tok videos won't look so good rendered by green lasers. But... it's not for that. 

    Computers have become way too complex - AI with voice recognition offers a way out of that morass - the only visible way out. 

    We've already thought of all the clever UI elements we could put on screens, but the complexity keeps growing. I am an engineer and I think the number of options in iPhone settings is ridiculous. There's way too much going on, nobody has time or the mind to learn all that. Add to this blockchain it gets even worse. 

    This device is super impressive in terms of battery and power

    And how it is to be used - the biggest hurdle - has already been shown in like 1000s of episodes of SciFi shows and movies, Star Trek and others. We know how to use this. 

    Apple should be extremely worried, this is exactly the kind of thing that will kill them in the long term. Because Apple makes so much money from iPhone, it won't be easy to jump on this tech. 

    I hope they don't sell out - this startup is epic, and I did not expect to say this after the headline. But that is really cool stuff and the obvious direction computing is going in the future. 
    byronlsflagelwilliamlondon

  • Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription

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    Punultimate said:
    Looks awkward to wear and interact with.
    Also they need to spend some money on marketing; a stilted demo in an echo filled room with lackluster record and no background music is not a great introduction to a new product.
    Interesting ideas with the hand projection and interaction but 100% a skip for me.
    Nah that was pretty smart. In today's world, you spend your money on development - make better products rather than better ads - and you need to be authentic, which is why the founders speak about their device, which is spot on. 

    I've seen many cringe marketing overly glossy pitch perfectly ad-voice - that doesn't work anymore, the collective has moved on from it. Today's biggest adiences are watching ad hoc YouTubers with bad hair and incorrect spelling 10x or 100x more than the old TV stations - authenticity wins. 
    byronlronn

  • Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription

    CalamanderCalamander
    comcastsucks said:
    "Any time the microphone or camera is in use, a "trust light" is turned on for people to see"

    How long until someone figures out how to turn that off?

    I doubt anyone will bother. It's baked into the hardware so to turn that off is going to be hard - probably easiest to put a colored sticker over it. 

    There's tons of other devices which can silently record things that are much better suited for the task - because they're designed for it.


    byronlronnwatto_cobrajony0

  • A lament for the Touch Bar

    CalamanderCalamander
    Physical brightness and volume control keys are way better than the touch bar. 

    No one has time to have customized features for each app on the touch bar - even apps I use most often, I end up learning the 2 or 3 most important keyboard shortcuts to become super efficient - the touch bar can't compete with that, it's always going to be slower, because it requires me to look down from whatever I am looking at on the screen, to the bar, then figure out what to push, carefully, so I don't miss, then look up again. 

    Add to that a slight delay on the touch bar that was surprising but never went away.... touch bar for some reason was slower than an iPhone screen (no delay). 

    In the end it wasn't useful for anything I was doing, when I tried using it it was very slow and error-prone. 

    One of the few failures in product design Apple made - why anyone thought this would be useful is beyond me. 

    All of which could maybe be forgiven if it didn't _replace_ useful functions I use every day, like brightness and volume buttons ... I just counted besides brightness, volume, escape, and power/touch, there's 7 more buttons I never use - replacing those with a touch bar would be OK, since I don't use them anyway. 

    But replacing crucial features with something much worse - very bad idea, hated it. I had a MBP with touch bar for 1 year. 
    Penziwilliamlondon