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

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    5 months ago

    seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale

    Lol what? They’re lucky to get 7.5 million, and that includes a lot of handies behind the dumpster at Wendy’s

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      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

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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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          That is the one billion dollars question that every one at Silicon Valley is asking.

          We now have a clearer answer to that. We know that the answer they are looking for isn’t whatever this thing is.

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        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.