{"id":10163,"date":"2023-12-06T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T03:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:55:58","slug":"humane-pin-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10163","title":{"rendered":"Humane Pin rise and fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Update 3-4-2024<\/strong>: Humane has sold itself to HP for $116 million<\/a> – which is surprising since they sold less than 10,000 units. The pins no longer work as of Feb 28, 2025<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Update 1-10-2024:<\/strong> Things aren’t looking good. The press has been brutal about how bad it is and sales appear to be brutally bad. Humane layed off 4% of it’s workforce and the CTO has transitioned to an ‘advisor’ role<\/a> before they have even shipped a single device (estimated March 2024)]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Update – 6-6-2024<\/strong> It appears that Humane had an unbelivably toxic culture that prohibited questioning the product<\/a> – an arrogant and sure fire way to deliver a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times interviewed “23 current and former employees, advisers and investors”. The two former Apple employee founders “preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the AI Pin\u2019s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration.” Another software engineer was fired for questioning if the AI pin would be ready for launch, the report describes a staff meeting where the founders “said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane.” ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It looks like the Humane<\/a> pin has finally launched at a relatively reasonable cost of $699<\/a>. We finally have some details. I’m pretty sure it’s not a smartphone killer – Humane has definitely backed off from that original stance. In fact, it’s turned into something of a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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