• xodoh74984@lemmy.world
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    Who exactly was hyped about this?

    Personally, I typically want my interactions with technology to be quiet. I don’t want it talking, and I don’t want to be talking to it.

    Not to mention the privacy implications of an always-on camera and microphone connected to the internet

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    I could have told them this was a dumb idea from the start; creating something that doesn’t fill a need, is just another device to carry around and could just be an app on a phone that we already carry around, just to cram it down people’s throats “because AI,” is probably not a good business plan.

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      It got funded to the tune of $240m. Which was probably about as far as they thought this through.

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        Wow, I didn’t even realize that it requires a $24.99 per month plan from T-Mobile for voice, texting and data. These companies are getting really brazen.

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      If you add a strap to it, it will be smartwatch. So there’s a need and a niche, just not for one more way to do the same stuff

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          This is exactly what I meant: they’re selling a watch without a strap, and saying it’s something new

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          How are you going to sell that? It already exists, so it won’t draw venture capital that you can siphon off until the whole thing collapses.

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      This pretty well describes smart watches in my mind outside of those that need to keep track of certain vitals all of the time as well.

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        I used to feel the same, but they do fit a bit of a need for me. They work great as a silent alarm so you don’t wake up anyone else in your room, you don’t have to take your phone out to check time or notifications, and health and fitness tracking is better than what a phone can offer.

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      Marques is right. I’m sorry, for $700 goddamn dollars I refuse to be some random startup’s R&D. I can’t wait for the DiSrUpToR model to die a painful death.

      And to all the people crying because MKBHD was mean, I say: STFU. I watch him for his integrity. Your product is bad and you should feel bad.

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        You can’t be mean to a company. Companies don’t have feelings. Fuck a company if it sucks. Fuck most companies, honestly. No company would go out of its way for me. It will lie to me, take my money…in fact, that’s its only function.: to take my money, by lying if necessary. If it doesn’t take my money, it fails as a company. That’s its prime directive.

        So…fuck any company.

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        Yup, I didn’t watch his review, but I watched his video about the review, and he’s 100% right. If your product sucks, expect to get bad reviews. If your product is good, expect to get good reviews. If you’re getting bad reviews and you know your product is good, talk with the reviewers to figure out what happened.

        MKBHD’s reviews are fantastic. I’ve never once felt I’m being sold to, and I’ve always left feeling more educated about the product. Top notch if you ask me.

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      Hey, I just watched the video on youtube last night. He started off with the good things such as the physical design of the device, or the interesting way it can project a laser image on your hand, but after that, it was all downhill.

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    Business people see the word AI mentioned in the products: invest invest invest! Business people see AI products hit with honest tech reviews: thoSe PEAsants aRE RUIning ThE InnOVATIOn

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      Terrible products like this might end poisoning the well for genuinely useful AI projects further down the line. “AI” will loose it’s buzz and instead become synonymous with failure to consumers and investors alike.

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    “much hyped” lol I have seen not one person who was positively looking forward to this. I don’t really know why such dead in the water stupid idead even get any media attention at all.

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    Ummm… really? The technology is nowhere near the hype they are putting behind it. Just some AI snake oil salesmen. The next few years will be filled with “ai” e-waste as people use the buzzword to sell garbage.

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      My first Android phone from 2010 was better at this and it didn’t even have multitouch and just 160 MB of usable storage.

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          Ehhhh… Nvidia stumbled upon the fact that their specialized silicon does very well with AI tasks. And yes, their software stack is leagues ahead of anyone else. But they are completely riding the “AI” buzzword popularity wave, and their overinflated stock price is evidence of that. This is just my honest opinion, having no background in any of this, just a casual dabbler and tech enthusiast.

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        My favorite was their calling their shield upscaling algorithm “AI”. It’s a fixed non-dynamic algorithm like any other, but they did use AI to make rapid iterative improvements during the development of the algorithm.

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          Current LLMs agi are no where near what a definition of “AI” is, yet all are being market as “AI”. It is just a buzzword. Like “synergy” and “cloud”. It has lost its meaning.

          edit: confuzzled my buzzwords