The AI Pin charging case has a battery issue.
  • Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to potential fire safety risk from certain battery cells.
  • Issue isolated to specific battery cells in Charge Case Accessory, not related to hardware design.
  • Ai Pin, Battery Booster(s), and Charge Pad not affected, as disqualified vendor does not supply components for those products.
  • Alphane MoonEnglish
    28•5 months ago

    Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.

    I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the “AI Pin” device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

    • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
      20•5 months ago

      what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

      Nothing. Literally just using your phone is faster and easier.

      • Alphane MoonEnglish
        11•5 months ago
        CPU: Octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon (Snapdragon 720G to be exact, they don't list it on their page though)
Memory: 4GB RAM
Storage: 32GB eMMC

        They have a bunch of other HW too (LTE modem, camera, voice etc.), but this does look like one of those “legal” silicon valley type scams.

        • @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mlEnglish
          9•5 months ago

          Sure it’s got half decent specs, but all the “magic”(read as almost semi-functional) stuff happens server side.

          • Alphane MoonEnglish
            6•5 months ago

            $700 dollars worth half decent?

            Yeah, it did look like everything happens server-side. Still seems like a borderline scam.

    • @vvv@programming.devEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      it could explicitly be a reasonable deterrent. if you double your price, but lose half your customers, you’ve made the same amount of money for half the work.