In this case the same people made both, so they are already practiced

This will flop though. So will the stupid Humane pin.

Either there are very few people that gullible or that group isn’t quite as gullible as you think.

You know, pairing an LLM with Playright is actually a pretty great idea. But that's something I can totally roll on my own.

Ahh, the good ol' days, before we knew how batshit AvE was.

Reviewer proceeds to squeeze more juice out with their hands than the machine managed.

The point being, they are charging 200 bucks for hardware that is superfluous and low end for an incomplete software experience that could be delivered without that on an app. The question is, are you going to give up your smartphone for this new device? Are you going to carry both? Probably not.

"It can do 10% of the shit your phone can do, only slower, on a smaller screen, with its own data connection, and inaccurately because you have to hope that our "AI" is sufficiently advanced to understand a command, take action on that command, and respond in a short amount of time. And that's not to even speak about the horrible privacy concerns or that it's a brick without connection!"

Everything about this project seems lackluster at best, other than maybe the aesthetic design from teenage engineering, but even then, their design work seems a bit repetitive. But that may be due to how the company is asking for the work. "We wanna be like Nothing and Playdate!!" "I gotchu fam!"

To address your point about e-readers, they have specific use cases. Long battery lives, large, efficient e-ink displays, and the convenience of having all your books, or a large subset, available to you offline! But when those things aren't a concern, yea, an app will do.

Like with most contemporary product launches, I simply find myself asking, "Who is this for?"

Why even try to sell me another device though?

Anything and everything this square does, my phone can do better already and has the added benefit of already being in my pocket and not a pain in the ass to use.

No, they're not.

An ereader is a piece of hardware that has a distinct purpose that cannot be matched by other hardware (high quality, high contrast, low power draw static content). Some of them do run Android, and that's a huge value add. But the actual hardware is the reason it exists.

This is just a dogshit Android phone. There is no unique hardware niche it's filling. It's an extremely obvious scam that is very obviously massively downgraded in all of value, utility, and performance by being forced onto separate hardware.