The Morning After: Humane AI Pins are being returned faster than the company can sell them
Humane’s universally derided AI Pin (“the solution to none of technology’s problems”) is not exactly flying off store shelves, according to internal sales documents published by The Verge. Worse, returns are apparently outpacing purchases. The company had once hoped to sell 100,000 in the first year — but there are only around 7,000 units out in the wild. In our review, we had issues with reliability, how slow it was to process requests, its price and its poor battery life. Its shelf life may be even worse.
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This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-humane-ai-pins-are-being-returned-faster-than-the-company-can-sell-them-111503071.html?src=rss
Humane’s universally derided AI Pin (“the solution to none of technology’s problems”) is not exactly flying off store shelves, according to internal sales documents published by The Verge. Worse, returns are apparently outpacing purchases. The company had once hoped to sell 100,000 in the first year — but there are…
