• mPony@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I’d buy you out but all I have is my 20 bucks from streaming music revenue and I’m going to spend that on beer.

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        If you even made one dollar off your own music, that’s fuckin cool. You earned that beer!

        What’s your band called?

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          5 months ago

          oh jesus, GOOD beer.
          how anyone can drink sub-par beer is fucking beyond me. Drinking that stuff is just self-disrespect. I mean, I get it, but, just, no.

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            I can confidently say as a recovering alcoholic that I would have bought neither. I would gave gone with a handle of the cheapest vodka in the store and a pouch of drum, bugler or Samson. And that would have been my 3 meals for the day.

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              5 months ago

              well bud, I must admit that does sound a bit rough. I wish you well in your recovery.

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      5 months ago

      Every web outlet and influencer with more than 1000 followers bought one. But that’s all they’re ever going to sell.

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        Isn’t it ironic that most likely, all their sales were used to make videos roasting their shitty product?

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    Inevitably. That’s the goal of most tech startups; hype themselves up and sell out for as many millions as possible. Meanwhile honest labor, education, and trades workers can’t afford houses.

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    HP is reportedly one of the companies that Humane was in talks with over a potential sale

    They didn’t learn the lesson with webos? They lost billions even if that was a good os with good phones.

    Can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy this company for more than 1million and that’s just because of patents and devs (acquihire - where the buyer is only interested in ip and devs and doesn’t care at all about the actual product)

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    ask for 1B valuation with only ~7M in sales + ~240k/mo subscription revenue… hmmmm gonna be a no for me Dogg

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      The entire company was a pump and dump scheme. They’re gonna continue the pump until dump or bankruptcy.

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          That’s Rabbit not Humane AI. These two clowns came from Apple and started Humane

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    No one wants badly executed overheating slow Google assistant in a pointless little box. You already have a superior assistant in your pocket, reacting to your voice.

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      I could see Apple buying it. The form factor makes sense, it’s the fact that it relies on AI and has its own cell connection are the main issues. If I could tap it and have Siri take dictation or take a picture of something to get more information it would be pretty neat.

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        Does it though? Having it pull down your shirt, having to rely on projecting a GUI on your hand, and being unable to hear it in loud environments all seem like pretty strong limitations of the form factor

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          I’d drop the projector interface, as cool as it is, since you have a phone for that. Maybe make it a pendant as well as a pin.

          Apple’s got a lot of experience with using tiny speakers in loud places, so I bet they could figure out something maybe using directional microphones. Plus, again, you’ve got the phone so you can use the headphones.

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            If you drop the projector, then airpods already do it better when paired with the watch. There’s no point in such a device at all, then.

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              Airpods don’t have a camera though. 90% of my photos are of things I need to remember, like a shopping list or a specific product I need to get Having to dig out (or find) my phone to do that is a pain.

              And I don’t have Airpods because I’d lose them, one by one, and the replacements are twice the price as another pair of perfectly workable Bluetooth headphones.

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                If they wanted to companies could put a camera in a smart watch easily. Samsung was doing it ages ago.

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                  My kids have a crappy watch ($30-40) that has a camera. It’s not a technical problem, it’s just a stupid idea, it’s not an ergonomic place to use a camera.