So, like a Rabbit. Because that did so well.

The Information says it is not clear if Apple plans to sell the pin on its own or bundle it with future smart glasses or other devices, but the physical button and built-in cameras, speakers, and microphones suggest that it can operate independently.

How about not releasing this at all? Nobody wants this.

stalkers gonna have a field day with this

Let’s start with the nicknames for the kinds of losers who’d use these so we can have them at the ready. Think “glasshole” (the one that stuck to Google’s surveillance product) but for this instead. I propose we use something like “pinhead”, only one that doesn’t suck like that, to just pre-emptively label its users before it even gets to market.

This would be a completely stupid product idea. I could see why Humane tried such an obviously stupid product, they were a startup that was trying something just in case, and ended up proving how stupid the concept is.

It doesn’t matter how bullish one might be about AI, this is a terrible product to facilitate that interaction.

Fine. A camera… That can’t tell where the user is looking. Having a device on speaker is generally a rude thing to do.

No one wants to skip having a screen, hell even for AI fanatics video and image generation is a huge use case that this product wouldn’t do anything for.

I could imagine a “body cam” pin as a phone accessory. But not as a standalone device. More useful would be something head mounted, and glasses could even do gaze tracking. But I could see people not wanting to wear glasses and selling for a body cam experience for some use cases. But interesting with an AI seems impractical since you would have no agreement on what you are looking at to answer a question.

Jesus christ. The airtag made it so easy to stalk people, that they had to deploy warnings when your phone suspects a tracker is following you. Based on that, Apple decided the best course of action was to add microphones and cameras do the airtag?