- too stealable, by people who will not care that a subscription is needed.
- the act of theft will happen violently and close up, not fun.
- it's an easy smallish act of violence, which means the on-ramp to violence is also easy. Not something most people want to invite into their lives.
- "they" (the Committee) will say phones can also be grabbed. But the equation here is different. With a phone there's no hand on your chest, no tearing of clothing, and for a phone thieves know you will try harder to get it back. With this, after the violent taking, the shock value and the relative disposability of the device will stop most from chasing the thief. This will be known subconsciously if not outright, so the "phones are also easy to grab" comparison does not apply.
- the features are already provided by something most everyone has, a smartphone.
- the level of obnoxiousness of the status signaling is off the charts.
- association with AI is not a positive for many people and is stigmatizing (whether the stigma is correct or not).
- built in camera and recording functionality or even the perceived possibility of recording is also stigmatizing and highly antisocial.
- all the voice UX inhibition concerns others have been mentioning.
- [edit, how did I leave this out, but it's just too obvious]: subscription. We. Don't. Want. More. Subscriptions.
On the positive side, the size is nice, it looks good, and reading stuff off your hand is a cool idea, although it will look pretty goofy. But no.
> too stealable, by people who will not care that a subscription is needed.
I even doubt there will be much theft of these. People will simply forget these, and stop using them.
So they showed one clipped to a jacket. Don't they take the jacket off? What's the intended usecase? That you take it off and re-attach to various clothign as you dress/undress? It also looks quite heavy, so most T-shirts and other light items of clothing are not really suitable for this.
And they really doubled down on that decision by also embedding it (“pin”) in the name, if not the identity, of the product.
They could have coined a word (I’m not claiming this is not cringe) “pindant” as in a dual use pin-or-pendant item, and bought more flexibility, for example. Edit: somebody already coined that word, see the dot com (sfw), lol.
I agree that this could be doa. But if violent theft is that big of a problem where you live, you should try to fix that. Someone could snatch your phone out of your hands too!
It's trully is disturbing that some people have this constantly on their minds while (presumably) living in developed countries where 600$ meme-device is a thing and that's why they wouldn't get it.
- too stealable, by people who will not care that a subscription is needed.
- the act of theft will happen violently and close up, not fun.
- it's an easy smallish act of violence, which means the on-ramp to violence is also easy. Not something most people want to invite into their lives.
- "they" (the Committee) will say phones can also be grabbed. But the equation here is different. With a phone there's no hand on your chest, no tearing of clothing, and for a phone thieves know you will try harder to get it back. With this, after the violent taking, the shock value and the relative disposability of the device will stop most from chasing the thief. This will be known subconsciously if not outright, so the "phones are also easy to grab" comparison does not apply.
- the features are already provided by something most everyone has, a smartphone.
- the level of obnoxiousness of the status signaling is off the charts.
- association with AI is not a positive for many people and is stigmatizing (whether the stigma is correct or not).
- built in camera and recording functionality or even the perceived possibility of recording is also stigmatizing and highly antisocial.
- all the voice UX inhibition concerns others have been mentioning.
- [edit, how did I leave this out, but it's just too obvious]: subscription. We. Don't. Want. More. Subscriptions.
On the positive side, the size is nice, it looks good, and reading stuff off your hand is a cool idea, although it will look pretty goofy. But no.