Humane’s AI Pin Is Seeing More Returns Than Sales, Report Says

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Humane’s AI Pin Is Seeing More Returns Than Sales, Report Says
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Humane hoped to ship around 100,000 Pins within its first year, but reportedly managed to sell only around 10,000.

” by renowned tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, Humane’s AI Pin saw a pretty rough start. Somehow, things only got worse for the AI gadget.been returned, and as of Wednesday, that figure has fallen by another 1,000 meaning only around 7,000 units are still with their buyers, the report says.

Humane expected to sell around 100,000 Pins within its first year, but could only manage to sell around 10,000, according to a report from theback in June. That’s an incredibly stark difference, but nothing too surprising looking at all the negative feedback the Pin garnered in its first few months. We didn’t get our hands on the device butAs if its $700 price wasn’t too high to begin with, it also required buyers to pay $24 for a T-Mobile unlimited data plan that also included cloud storage.

Another outrageous fact is that Humane significantly overestimated their product and its capabilities and reportedly raised a massive $200 million from investors. The company only managed to sell $9 million worth of Pins, out of which $1 million worth has already been returned. Back in May, Humane was looking for a

What was supposed to be a game-changing gadget designed to, in Humane’s words, work as “your second brain” quickly saw a dramatic demise. Humane isn’t the only company we’ve seen this happen with. In fact, Rabbit’s R1 was an even, initially featuring more issues than we could count on our fingertips. Guess this is just the consequence of overdoing AI. Like Brownlee, it’s better to keep AI as a feature for now. Selling it as a product isn’t really working so far.

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