[khalilravanna]

Never heard of this. So I went to the website to find out what it is. "Your pocket companion" the top of the website reads. Ok, don't know what that means. Scroll down "push to talk button", "conversational interface", and some other hardware features. Still no idea what it's for. They have a keynote video. I press play. It starts with them showing a bunch of press coverage and social media. Still no description of what it is. Not even a demo of what it does. I got several minutes into the video and it's all acting like I already know what it is. I've completely lost interest. Mystifyingly bad marketing.

[Twirrim]

It's an awful piece of trash. A phone-ish sized device that's sole purpose is to act as an interface to AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTV12hErTc is a review by Marques Brownlee, covering how bad it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM Coffezilla goes in to the ways that it's arguably a scam, as well as diving in to some of how it is badly implemented.

On the technical side, it gets worse. For example, it turns out things like their Spotify "integration" is actually interacting with the Spotify web site. It doesn't even use Spotify's APIs. So it breaks any time Spotify modifies their website.

[thih9]

Yes; at the same time, it’s a scam only because people didn’t like it. If it got popular, it would have been a successful hustle and a new business model.

[mattashii]

Advertising a product with features that it doesn't have remains a scam in my book, no matter the popularity.

See also: Theranos

[thih9]

Chatgpt, a product that successfully disrupted the market and inspired a number of other companies, is largely misunderstood and falsely advertised.

A HN submission about chatgpt hallucinating broken links to partner websites has comments like:

> It drives me nuts how OpenAI has misleadingly marketed their products, and the tech community at large has failed to clarify what their products really are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821262

[robertlagrant]

Coffeezilla's covered[0] some of their... aspects.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvFc_24vSM (video)

[serf]

i'm with you, but 'product discovery via security announcement' is a risky business.