the highlight is when the pin spends 13 seconds looking at the Brooklyn Bridge and then very confidently tells the guy it's the Triborough Bridge. i give this company ~6mo before it shuts down its servers and bricks every single one of these fucking things.
everything else aside, even if it worked perfectly, i cannot imagine wanting to interact with a device like this in public by talking to it. imo a huge reason for the popularity of screens in public is you can look down at them and instantly be in a kind of private space. why in the HELL would i want to speak e-mails aloud, into a public space??? that's psycho behavior.
i think the upper-middle-class NYT-reading FOMO crowd have tied themselves into knots over "screens" when the real issue isn't the actual, physical screen, it's that every single app company has turned the screen into a surveillance casino that gets you addicted to it and then spies on you.
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