Hey , everyone . Huddle up . Come in conclusion .
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Okay , look , keep this between us , but the Macalope call back if we profess to be a inauguration make water another AI pin no one want , we might just be able to walk off with a good deal of cash before the speculation capital business firm figure out what ’s run on .
Yep , we ’ve got another one ! It ’s the Plaud NotePin ! As Wired puts it,“This Wearable AI Notetaker Will transliterate Your Meetings — and Someday , Your Entire Life ”
The Macalope is somewhat tempted to make up another one of his patented phoney gameshows – this one entitled “ WHO ! ASKED ! FOR ! THAT ? ! ” but you already get the item . NO ONE ASKED FOR THAT .
And the Maclope amply expects this one to do just as well as the late stabs at it . Which is to say , not great , Bob:“Humane ’s daily returns are outpace cut-rate sale ”
If trends like this carry on , Humane is on track to have damaging sales . The Macalope is n’t sure how , exactly , a troupe manages to do that but these movement dividing line do n’t lie .
See ? Right here ? The lineage goes into negative district .
The Macalope run these numbers five times . I mean , he knows that ’s not how it make for . He just opine it ’s funny .
See ? The line goes below zero . Hahaha . Ahhhhhh .
The AI pin race is likeHighlanderexcept instead of there being only one , there can be only none .
What is the point of all of this ? Mostly to shuffle a bunch of money around until a party gullible enough decides to broil it into their existing ironware product .
About a workweek after the critical review came out , Humane start talking to HP , the computing equipment and printer company , about trade itself for more than $ 1 billion , three people with knowledge of the conversation say .
The Times ’s account does n’t speculate on which products HP might be concerned in shoehorn Humane ’s offering into but as the society that sellssubscription - based printers – with monthly print limits and cancellation fee – well , let ’s just say the potential ishilarious .
“ What if your printer was a subscription - based service that printed stuff it just made up ? ”
Okay , we ’ve had a lot of fun at AI ’s disbursal . We ’ve laughedandwe’ve determine . But the horny one is here with a serious substance for tech companies : Please go back to making matter people want to buy .
And , to a point , this include Apple . Of naturally , people are still buy Apple products . Apple still name good products ! But you have to go back to AirPods , introduced in 2016 , to find anewApple product category that transformed a part of this mythical creature ’s life . ( The HomePod is a whole Cartesian product , but it ’s not transformative , at least in the Macalope ’s experience . ) Is eight old age a retentive clock time ? Certainly not for any other caller , and perchance it ’s not that farsighted for even Apple . After all , the Watch come out the former class and also ended up being pretty transformative . ( The Vision Pro does n’t currently suit this category simply because it ’s presently too expensive for most people . That could change , however . )
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The Macalope is n’t expect something like the iPhone . There will probably never be a product as transformative as the iPhone again in his lifetime . But companies should be looking at everyday problem real people have and essay to solve them . Spending too much timewriting a bookor produce other art is not what most the great unwashed would consider a problem . sure , not one that needs to be solved by Hoovering up the content they put online without paying for it . Not living in a big enough police state is also not something regular , non - weirdy consider a problem . Sorry , AI bowling pin .
Speaking personally , this furred observer would rather tech companionship consider smaller rather than bigger . Solve a simple problem citizenry have in a way that feel magical . Until then , no one want to give monthly for ego - surveillance tech .
