Technology

I sometimes think of "who bought these?" I mean, I'm a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I'll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I'll never reference) before deleting my account. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I'll never own?

If I had that kind of money to waste, I'd just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.

And I don't even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I'd have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.

This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level... But here in reality I'm just left confused. "What were they thinking?"

It reminds me a bit of Garmin acquiring Pebble and discontinuing support. This does sound significantly worse though

I'm curious what's the financial outcome here for the customers? I don't remember what Humane's price model for these pins was, and none of these articles are discussing it. For example... Eh I'll just look it up.

Oh my god it was $500-$700 up front plus a $25 monthly fee. That's just horrible; will the customers be getting refunds? [Looks it up] Nope.

https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

https://support.humane.com/hc/en-us/articles/34243204841997-Ai-Pin-Consumers-FAQ

“Become?”

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Hold on this might not be as bad as it sounds. How many sold? Like 5?

I guarantee this was their goal all along. Build up something to have a larger entity come through and buy the company. Wish I had thought of it but I'm not a fan of screwing over the user base.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

Released in April 2024; killed in February 2025.