Everyone wants to be Steve Jobs and launch a product that changes the tech industry and the lives of millions of people (and sells billions of units in the process). Unfortunately (or fortunately), there was only one Steve Jobs; even those who worked under him can’t revolutionize the market just by wanting to. The Humane AI Pin is the best demonstration of this to date.
Created by former Apple employees involved in the development of the iPhone, the Humane AI Pin was to be to smartphones what smartphones were to mobile phones. It was introduced as a real revolution that it would completely change the way we interact with technology; it would make the smartphone obsolete, because we could do the same thing with a much smaller device that we could wear like a pin on our shirt.
Far from delivering on these promises, the Humane AI Pin will go down in history as one of the great technological failures of 2024. The reception of the device has been lukewarm; When we at EL ESPAÑOL – El Androide Libre tried it, we came to the conclusion that it was very green. The most critical stated directly that it didn’t work It also failed to deliver on any of the promises made throughout its development.
AI Pin’s biggest problem is that it fails to convince those who have already invested in its idea; and, as a result, this has reduced the interest of new buyers. As revealed The Vergebetween May and August More units were returned than sold; In fact, more people wanted to get rid of their device than buy it.
Since its launch last April in the United States, Humane has managed to distribute 10,000 units of its AI Pin; however, inside sources claim that only 7,000 units are still in the hands of its customers originals. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the target of selling 100,000 units by the end of the year, according to internal sources, will not be achieved.
Humane AI Pin Video at MWC
Perhaps the most painful thing is that the AI Pin units returned by users will become electronic wasteif there are no changes. Humane has no way to repair the device and resell it to another consumer, at least for now, due to an issue with the associated carrier; although, according to one source, the company has not yet thrown away the devices it received in hopes of being able to reuse them in the future.
An increasingly uncertain future. Humanity survives thanks to the great investment by, among others, Sam AltmanCEO of Open AI; After all, the AI Pin uses ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence to answer users’ questions, and new models like the GPT-4o were supposed to be the device’s “salvation.” As Humane tries to negotiate with investors, rumors are swirling of a possible sale to a tech giant (HP is reportedly considering it).
For its part, Humane defended itself by assuring that the publication contained errors that it cannot deny by referring to the company’s financial data. In addition, it states that has released several updates for the AI Pin that they respond to user complaints and that they are “on the starting line and not on the finish line”; even if in the technology sector it is not uncommon to see very short careers.
