[The Humane AI team will form an] AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work
Hope they like figuring out how to sell printer ink
The pin will be reconfigured to notify you when you need to buy more ink.
Me: “Hey, HP Assistant, why is the black-and-white page not printing?”
Printer: “Our cutting edge AI predicitive algorithm forecasts increased yellow ink usage in the future, so please renew your subscription now.”
“It’s like chatgpt but it only prints replies on physical paper so it’s a premium experience, and the ai is expressive so it will use delightfully colorful, full page background images for its replies.”
It prints in white text on a black background
And yet still refuses to print when the cyan cartridge is low.
I’ve been in an acquisition like this. I feel for anyone who has their startup work dismantled by an acquisition just looking to hire and squash their product.
Yeah, that’s sad, but in this case the product itself squashed the startup, not HP.
The product was a failure long before HP got anywhere near it
Oh good, more useless e-waste.
Everytime there is a new technology everyone rushes to cram it into literally anything. Like when Bluetooth came out. Or the first apps, blockchain, etc. It’s honestly sickening in my actual stomach. Big or small e-waste for all.
Founders were looking for a 1bil payout 😂. they settled for 116mil 🤯…
why would anyone pay for a company that flopped so fantastically? this makes no sense at all…
Crazy that they got 116 millions for that.
Patents. Its always patents.
There is probably some IP there that can make printers worse for consumers too.
A little shocked the Rabbit R1 outlived them. Mine is still chugging, though a lot of the features (like MidJourney integration) have been halted.
Gonna be a fun little Android media player in a few months I suppose.
I mean, the R1 was $200, came with a year of Perplexity, and didn’t require a subscription.
The Pin started at $500 and required a subscription, along with a new phone number.
Not that surprised.
I thought that the subscription money was what would keep them afloat for longer
The was always the fate of this horrible product. Do the rabbit r1 next.
Rabbits can at least be jailbroken so won’t be turned into paperweights when their company shuts down.
Its Linux compatible or garbage. Bottom line. My Android phone is discharging faster than a bucket with a hole, but I’m keeping it as long as I can. I need to get me an Ubuntu phone.
This ewaste has like 1 hour of battery life and it’s so locked up that even the company itself can’t reset/refurbish the returns and just trash them
Can’t you just replace the battery somehow? My phone’s old battery had an adhesive which the repairman just cut, then he put in a new adhesive and battery in.
The only way to open this thing is to remove the screen… Which is the only way to certify that I am me for all work related stuff…2FA is such a pita. So if I fuck up, that could be the loss of just my phone or all my e-mail. Lol, just kidding, I got backups. But boy, what a piece of shit way of doing things. I’m out. The hackers can have it all.
Jesus how old is your phone?
4 years. That’s not really old at all. They just throttle your battery’s capacity.
LOL they actually managed to scam HP and let them hold the bag
I thought the rumors last year were just a meme, because HP is the expert in wasting millions in failed acquisitions
How would they spend all that money they made by scaming people with their printer business
I thought dick measuring contests in legal courts was the go-to “I have so much money and I don’t know how to spend it!” of big companies
Don’t worry all, the FAQ has reassured me that you can still use offline features like… checking the battery level!
Lol I thought you were joking but they actually wrote
- Can I still use my Ai Pin for offline features?
Yes. After February 28, 2025, Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc., but will not include any function that requires cloud connectivity like voice interactions
Wait, can’t even check the time? Or it needs the internet connection for that?
Wow that ‘etc’ is doing a ton of legwork
You know, offline features like seeing how long your device will stay on to tell you how long your device will stay on. Everything you need!
They worked before? Not what I heard.
I think the article says they will work less than before.
They’re gonna suddenly be too light to use as a paper weight? 🤨
HAHAHA the device will be able to check its own battery but do nothing else. Amazing
Oh man, they are gonna ruin like 5 people’s day with this.
Is it that many?
At least as many as techtubers influencers received them. So 1 too many of this grift.
But how many of them do you think put it away within a week of using it to make content? I would bet the ratio of people who possess one to people who will be disappointed is huge, assuming there are in fact disappointed users.
I think the disappointment probably came about 5 minutes after unboxing, and news of the shut down would be more relief than disappointment
How do you not understand that someone just having it and someone actively using it is completely different?
users will lose access to essentially all of their device’s features, including but not limited to calling, messaging, AI queries and cloud access. The FAQ does note that you’ll still be able to check on your battery life, though.
OK that is just fucking hilarious…People will literally be stuck with a battery monitor which only purpose is to monitor it’s own battery.
“What is my purpose?”
“To monitor your battery”
“Oh my god”
People with a burn out
inb4 they release their new “Humane by HP” line of printers. They have only one button, which summons the new HP printer AI.
HP, which is buying the company’s intellectual property for $116 million… Humane was seeking a $1 billion buyout
🤣 🤣 🤣
Even 116 mil is too much for this trash product.
They’re not buying the product, they’re buying the IP. the article literally says that HP doesn’t give a fuck about the product/HW
If HP does anything with that IP they will 110% find a way to make it even worse.
That still seems like a wildly high buyout.
HP. Now there’s a company with an eye for the future! 🤭
I’m betting on IBM!
What’s good for Chrysler is good for America!
‘I’ll give you tree-fiddy’
-HP, probably
