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.
  • @[email protected]English
    73•4 months ago

    As recompense, the company is offering two free months of its subscription service

    Didn’t realise it was a subscription service too. How dim would you have to be to pay 700 dollars for a device on the understanding that it won’t work unless you keep paying 24 more dollars every single month?

    People that buy subscriptions like this are a bigger problem than the companies that offer them

    • Alphane MoonEnglish
      28•4 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?

      • @[email protected]English
        20•4 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•4 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.

          • @[email protected]English
            9•4 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•4 months ago

              $700 dollars worth half decent?

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

              • @[email protected]English
                2•4 months ago

                I’d say it’s so far past the border ICE is hunting it down. And no, like $200 half decent.

      • @vvvEnglish
        1•4 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.

    • hondacivicEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      I don’t like calling people “sheeple” but there’s nothing else that would fit for those who bought this.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•4 months ago

      The game console industry proved this was a viable business plan a couple of decades ago.