They can’t sell the $699 AI party trick that requires a $24 subscription so they slashed the price to $499. Unfortunately it’s still $500 too expensive for what’s worth.
Maybe at $10 someone could buy it as a Halloween costume prop and even pay a whole month of subscription just to show off the novelty
Yeah that’d be cool if the opened it up and recreate it as a platform for people to mess around with it. Like a rPi or Arduino or something. Because in it’s current form…pretty much useless. But you’re right; they’d have to drop that price point significantly and incentivize people even if it were open.
Once a Humane Pin is returned, the company has no way to refurbish it, sources with knowledge of the return process confirmed. The Pin becomes e-waste, and Humane doesn’t have the opportunity to reclaim the revenue by selling it again.
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given that it’s horribly bad at what it claims to do and was a fire risk? not even a zero point.
I’d need to be paid a non negligible amount to try and wring some speck of usefulness out of this thing.
Yeah that’d be cool if the opened it up and recreate it as a platform for people to mess around with it. Like a rPi or Arduino or something. Because in it’s current form…pretty much useless. But you’re right; they’d have to drop that price point significantly and incentivize people even if it were open.
Unfortunately the hardware is so closed that even themselves can’t reset the software for refurbishing
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/7/24211339/humane-ai-pin-more-daily-returns-than-sales
Jfc. Can’t, or rather won’t, refurbish? That’s beyond stupid.
Maybe they really believed that this shit was so good that nobody would ever return or even sell it to third parties in the future