John Siracusa

It shipped with the thing broken, and it didn't get fixed until much later.

It shipped with the thing broken, and it didn't get fixed until much later.

uh now like going into this week was probably measured in the hundreds at most um so i don't think we're talking about a lot of uh affected people here probably less than that but yeah 10 days notice isn't very long that's what happens when companies fail i'm kind of surprised they're getting bought for that much money i guess those patents must really be worth a lot i guess they're getting some staff as well but who knows how long they'll stay on uh keep in mind that they're like the stories that talk about this

uh now like going into this week was probably measured in the hundreds at most um so i don't think we're talking about a lot of uh affected people here probably less than that but yeah 10 days notice isn't very long that's what happens when companies fail i'm kind of surprised they're getting bought for that much money i guess those patents must really be worth a lot i guess they're getting some staff as well but who knows how long they'll stay on uh keep in mind that they're like the stories that talk about this

tried to emphasize that they're not buying the AI pin product they don't even want that that product is just dead gone shut down right so sometimes when companies get bought out when they've failed the company that buys them wants to sort of continue their product in some way in a modified version they're like nah nah we're not gonna I'm not gonna make an AI pin like at all so you can just shut all that down shut off all those servers we're not that's not what we're buying we're buying patents we're buying people and we're buying whatever that OS is and

tried to emphasize that they're not buying the AI pin product they don't even want that that product is just dead gone shut down right so sometimes when companies get bought out when they've failed the company that buys them wants to sort of continue their product in some way in a modified version they're like nah nah we're not gonna I'm not gonna make an AI pin like at all so you can just shut all that down shut off all those servers we're not that's not what we're buying we're buying patents we're buying people and we're buying whatever that OS is and

Who knows what HP will do with that. But honestly, $116 million sounds like a lot. I think they raised something like $230 million or something. So not a great return on investment for those investors. But that's the way in business. Sometimes people take risks. The consumers take risks. I think most of the people who bought this knew they were taking a risk when they got it.

Who knows what HP will do with that. But honestly, $116 million sounds like a lot. I think they raised something like $230 million or something. So not a great return on investment for those investors. But that's the way in business. Sometimes people take risks. The consumers take risks. I think most of the people who bought this knew they were taking a risk when they got it.

Not all risks pay off. So I hope you enjoyed your year slash one week or however long you spent actually using this pin thing. It didn't work out for a lot of reasons.

Not all risks pay off. So I hope you enjoyed your year slash one week or however long you spent actually using this pin thing. It didn't work out for a lot of reasons.

There was another story in The Verge that I couldn't tell if it was a... I read the story, got angry about part of it, tooted about it, and then realized, I think I got angry about the same exact thing in the same article in the past. So I think it might have been just like a repost of an article. It had today's date on it.

There was another story in The Verge that I couldn't tell if it was a... I read the story, got angry about part of it, tooted about it, and then realized, I think I got angry about the same exact thing in the same article in the past. So I think it might have been just like a repost of an article. It had today's date on it.

But it looks like an article that was written months ago, and they just reposted and maybe changed some part of it. Anyway... They were saying how like Humane has failed and it's all their fault. A lot of it is their fault.

But it looks like an article that was written months ago, and they just reposted and maybe changed some part of it. Anyway... They were saying how like Humane has failed and it's all their fault. A lot of it is their fault.

But as we discussed at length when we were considering the Humane pin and other things like that, there is some portion of the blame that goes to the platform owners because part of the reason Humane's product was so terrible is they couldn't do a lot of things that would make sense for a product like this because the platform owners wouldn't let them.

But as we discussed at length when we were considering the Humane pin and other things like that, there is some portion of the blame that goes to the platform owners because part of the reason Humane's product was so terrible is they couldn't do a lot of things that would make sense for a product like this because the platform owners wouldn't let them.

So that arguably that's a reason not to try to make this product. So still it's kind of on Humane. But the headline specifically emphasizing that it's all humane's fault really misses something very important about these products, which is the best way to make anything remotely like this is with much tighter integration with the phone platform. And the phone vendors did not want to allow that.

So that arguably that's a reason not to try to make this product. So still it's kind of on Humane. But the headline specifically emphasizing that it's all humane's fault really misses something very important about these products, which is the best way to make anything remotely like this is with much tighter integration with the phone platform. And the phone vendors did not want to allow that.

Specifically Apple, but even Android, don't really want to allow products like this to have the integration that would make them good products. Apple decides to make one. You can be sure it will have great integration and work well. But third parties, Apple's like, yeah, no.

Specifically Apple, but even Android, don't really want to allow products like this to have the integration that would make them good products. Apple decides to make one. You can be sure it will have great integration and work well. But third parties, Apple's like, yeah, no.