This is only because literally every single freaking device has the words AI slapped on it. It's about as meaningful as blast processing on the Sega Genesis. I had to buy a new phone and it's got a dumb little quick search option that they re-labeled AI.

Don't make sense. They are suggesting that this device will become the next Apple. Which is possible, but that means this device will have to become the next cellphone, and only open AI will be in the AI device market. This is also assuming that people would want to carry a third device outside of their cell phone, and that the cell phone companies would not build in AI capability into a cell phone. The most obvious place for AI device is in a cell phone.

But you can tell whatever you want to investors and at this point they'll put whatever money they have into anything new.

Name one reason why people would need an extra device that needs to be recharged every 24 hours when almost everyone has a smartphone nowadays. And it will likely be extremely limited compared to any half-decent smartphone.

This entire project is going to be a total flop.

With the crazy tax breaks from don the buffoon and lack of any rationality in the so-called markets, we'll see multi trillion dollar valuations soon enough. The only question is what will the dollar be worth then.

Complete lack of details about what problem this device solves for the consumer. From the story it seems to be a box full of spyware and sensors to gain even more granularity about your life to sell. I don't see how a device that you can't explain the benefit of will be a commercial success.

People have screens to watch videos, take videos, browse. Remove the screen and you've just emasculated the device. And that's before considering the horrific privacy implications of allowing something fundamentally awful prying into your personal life, your emails and everything else.

It's a device with a processor, storage, microphone, speaker,and camera that sits on your desk with two other devices that have the same things plus a screen and tactile inputs. The other two devices have zero problem accessing or running AI models, and have the added benefit of not needing to verbally summarize pictures, videos, or charts. The user would have the same painful experience of a telephone interactive voice response when selecting from a list. What purpose would this serve? Who, other than AI fanboys, would want this?

Did anyone ask for *any* of this "AI" shit?

Show me where a customer said "oh yes, fire your humans who serve customers and ram this customer service bot down our throats instead."

Show me where a customer said "no, I don't want results for the thing I searched for, I want some bullshit from predictive text instead."

"the device won’t be a phone, and that Ive and Altman’s intent is to help wean users off of screens. Altman said the device also isn’t a pair of glasses, and that Ive had been skeptical about building something to wear on the body."

So the device is going to sit in your pocket or on your desk and yet be "fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life". That would be a clever trick.

"would be a third core device a person would put on their desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone"

So you'll

> The company aims to ship the devices "faster than any company has ever shipped 100 million of something new before

SpaceX shipped 100 million pieces of new rocket debris into the Atlantic in a couple of minutes. I doubt OpenAI can beat that.

Who wouldn't want to pay a subscription for 24/7 surveillance with all your personal data in some corporate cloud storage? /s

Jony Ive has built quite a brand for himself riding the coattails of Steve Jobs. His actual value contribution is pretty limited. OpenAI gonna do what OpenAI gonna do, but if they think Jony Ive is going to make a device rollout successful, it will be fun to watch them learn that he has little actual value.