[pzo]

Humane was very impressive product from hardware perspective and design but poor execution and software (partially because they don't own smartphone os like android/iOS).

If similar hardware was:

- released by apple or google and deeply integrated with android/iOS

- embedded inside apple watch / pixel watch

- embedded inside slim airpods case that could be wear as pendant

- apple had siri as good as gemini and very good local STT to reduce latency

- MCP clients got more adopted by integrated in smartphones AI assistants

then it could be a hit. They lost because they shipped to early, without having big pockets for long game, without owning android OS / iOS and charged big price + subscription for this gadgets.

I think google currently is the best positioned to pull seamless experience with pixel devices (smartphone, watch, buds, gemini)