One month after launch of its “smartphone replacement,” Humane already seems doomed.

  • Toto@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    What makes anyone think that there won’t be AI chips in cell phones very soon?

    A cell phone replacement needs to replace the cell phone. Otherwise it’s just another device they expect you to carry

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      What the hell is a “cell phone replacement”? We repeatedly reengineered phones from voice carried over a telegraph wire, to a screen covered with sensors that fits in your pocket.

      Aside from a brain implant, what possible innovation is left other than tweaking with hardware and upgrading silicon?

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      1 month ago

      There already are matrix (matrix math, not The Matrix) accelerators in flagship phones, let alone all the services a phone can call off to. This product was never going to replace a damn thing.