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Launch Video:

A lot of the interactions seem to take longer vs me just taking my phone out and quickly doing what I need to do. Its compelling given this is a v1 of the product so it will only get better from here but not completely sold on it just yet.

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Kind of cool, maybe, but oh my god - the awkward video is such a turn off. Hire some actors!

But then the cofounders wouldn't get the full ego-stroking Silicon Valley Enterpreneur Experience™ they crave!

The whole goal of doing a startup like this as ex-Apple people is the narcissistic "next Steve Jobs" audition they are implicitly doing.

I'm sure Steve Jobs rolled over in his grave when they lead with product specs over "why buy this."

Absolutely. It was a snooze fest but as a presentation, even a few minutes in I thought I'd missed the part where they told me what it does and why I needed one asap.

Not that it matters either way, but I hate the recent Apple style of presentation with everyone being overly happy, hand-wavy and eerily excited about mundane features. This at least felt different and somewhat more honest.

so it's like a phone, but there's no apps or functionality other than what's built into the base OS, and there's no screen or input controls other than voice and gesture, it only plays music from Tidal, and only connects to t-mobile, and looks to everybody around me like i'm always wearing a camera pointed at them?

pass

They ask it where the next eclipse is, and where best to watch it. They got the date right, but the suggested locations of Timor and Australia are not in the eclipse path. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8

That also doesn't look like enough almonds for 15 grams worth of protein. 10 almonds have approx 3g of protein, requiring 50 almonds for 15 grams of protein, I don't think there's that many in the video.

Makes you wonder about the veracity of the AI (or the accuracy of the demo). Looks like a cool product either way.

Achieves “all day battery life”… by replacing the battery multiple times a day?

“No wake word so it’s not always listening”… you just activate it with your voice?

I can't tell whether the abysmal video is what's making me hate it or the device itself.

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