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Comment by jordancode | Hacker News Reader

Very exciting. This must be a smart speaker right?

I bet it'll be a smartphone that has front cameras to fingerprint your retina and back cameras to track everyone else's. In about half a decade, Zuck will show up with £100b to acquire it.

In all seriousness, Sam has been on record that smartphones indirectly contribute to information/tech addiction, and that lack of digital well-being is a global epidemic [0]. May be that. Surely, that?

[0] https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge

Why is it so painfully obvious that people with position piece blog posts do so to distance themselves or provide an alibi for the things they plan to directly contradict in the future?

A personal verification dongle / hand-held Orb.

Lipstick-sized retina scanner (selfies only). No screen, app store or other standard smart-phone features. Secure local network interface to World Coin smart-phone app. Months-long battery life.

Open spec h/w and OSS. Low cost, high-volume production.

Jony Ive is involved, so it will probably cost $1,500 and require you to turn it upside down to charge it. But damn if it doesn't look sexy sitting on your desk...

It will also forego usability for appearance. Who needs a keyboard to type anyway...

I'm still not convinced The Onion's Macbook Wheel wasn't a real thing he tried to convince Jobs to make.

Indeed, and the buttons on it (power, mic on/off, volume up/down etc) will start failing or doubling the input as soon as the tiniest bit of dust breaches the gaps, thanks to the latest-and-greatest Tiger Moth mechanism which is designed for the perception of greater button travel while reducing the thickness of said buttons by 0.00000000017%.

And the cables/cords will all look like this[1] after a month of use because proper strain relief is for "traditional companies."

1: https://www.businessinsider.in/tips-for-fixing-an-iphone-or-...

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