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
Jesus how old is your phone?
4 years. That’s not really old at all. They just throttle your battery’s capacity.
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.
Was anyone ever able to accurately count the number of almonds in their hand?
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.
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.
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
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?
[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
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.”
The pin will be reconfigured to notify you when you need to buy more ink.
“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
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
HAHAHA the device will be able to check its own battery but do nothing else. Amazing
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
Lol
Internet of things == internet of trash
Don’t buy shit you cannot own
IoT can be great. The key is, as you pointed out, to actually have personal control over it.
It also has to account for WAF (wife acceptance factor). If it doesn’t fail gracefully to a dumb version of itself, it’s not to be trusted
Or as I like to call it, the internet of stings.
Richard stallman
inb4 they release their new “Humane by HP” line of printers. They have only one button, which summons the new HP printer AI.
