Every time a company shoves AI into their product I see the won't eat cereal meme.

The foldable phone thing later in the article is fun, because I actually do want a foldable phone. I'd love to have a smaller phone with a screen that gets bigger for things like watching movies while traveling.

But the thing is, before buying one I borrowed one from a friend and it was absolute shit! The software hardly worked, the hinges felt horrible to open and it was still too big even when folded up. I thought I was going to break it constantly while holding it.

It's because current AI is meh on a phone.

Once someone manages to combine Siri's phone integration + ChatGPT Voice mode and it runs locally I will be very interested. Until then, I'm a bit meh on it.

With all the AI marketing for new phones, I keep yelling to myself "Nobody is asking for this!!" But maybe I'm in a minority group of what I consider "nobody".

i think the vast majority of all people are meh on AI. i've only ever seen programmers (and grifters of course) get excited about it.

Horse buyers meh on cars, care more about faster horses

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Alternate hed: 99% of smartphone buyers have no idea which features are supported by machine inference.