They’re being given leniency because the hardware designers have a great reputation.
Unfortunately the software team has fallen flat.
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warm@kbin.earth 6 months ago
This is one of those shitty products that you can see being shitty from a mile away, yet all the coverage and discussion around it gives it a life it otherwise wouldn't have had.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
The hardware team made a device that just couldn’t be turned into a good product no matter what the software team did. None of those AI-in-a-box devices are good products because they simply don’t have a reason to exist. Everything they can do, phones can do. If you have a phone, you don’t need one of those AI boxes, however if you buy one of those AI assistant things, you’ll still need a phone (which, again, can completely replace the AI box with no loss in functionality).
db2@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Camera shutters aren’t new…
Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Automatic physical camera shutters? Only ones I can think of on phones are pop-up selfie cameras like the LG Wing and OnePlus 7. LG doesn’t make phones any more and OnePlus dropped the pop-up camera in their next phone, and haven’t brought it back.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some phones and PDAs from decades ago had a “jog dial” on the side, like a mouse scroll wheel.
It was so easy to roll through menus and just push it to click.
The separate roller and button arrangement this has seems such a poor choice in comparison.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
if you’d give me 17€ minimum to use it, I’d for sure be using it.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 6 months ago
It’s probably only because it’s co-designed by Teenage Engineering. Usually their devices get quite the fuzz.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
They have so much quality audio equipment, it’s understandable why people would stump for this because of the TE involvement alone.
Funnily enough, despite being a TE enthusiast, this is my first time hearing that they had anything to do with this joke of a product.
…which kind of does make me sort look at TE like… wtf were you thinking?
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Imo TE has always been a shady company in terms of business decisions. I still for the life of me cannot understand why the OP-1 is over 2 grand. It’s a music making machine with a cruddy keybed that’s not even volocity sensitive that’s also intentionally limited in terms of how you can use it.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I definitely think it’s a cool little device capable of doing cool things. But there’s no way in hell this tiny thing is worth 2k. You can spend 1/4th of the price on something like an elektron Digitakt or a polyend play and get very similar functionality in an arguably better more robust package.
TE are a boutique company that intentionally releases overpriced products so they can have this reputation of being a “premium” company. Just like Apple. If it weren’t for their pocket operators (which are arguably closer to being toys than actual audio equipment) I wouldn’t think they’d have anything remotely worth buying.
Side note: the playdate looks adorable. But, similarly to the OP-1, is very overpriced for what it does.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I got into TE because of the Pocket Operators, which are built incredibly solidly and are reasonably priced for all they can do, in my opinion.
…or they were anyway. Prior to COVID they were about $60 a pop.
Now they’re pushing $100, which is a lot less in line with the price point I originally bought some at.
realharo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Which is exactly like the “camera collabs” that phone makers sometimes do that end up being nothing more than marketing gimmicks.
Like the OnePlus camera “by Hasselblad” that is quality wise the same as any other smartphone camera in that price category.