After many rumours about what OpenAI’s first hardware product would be—with rumours ranging from a speaker to an iPhone killer—the company has now revealed the Codex Micro, which simply put is a keypad. This is obviously not what anyone was expecting and at US$230 for what is largely a compact keypad from specialty keyboard maker Work Louder, it’s hard to see how this is going to be a big seller.
Why does everyone think if they just add a big unavoidable button to their service that we would suddenly want to use it?
Reminds me of when siri and the other assistance first came out, everyone had to try to force this useless feature front in center as if it could do anything worth a damn. I don’t see how this is useful to anyone and even imagine people who are fan boys of chatgpt would say this is dumb.
These billionairs are too used to just throwing money at shit and just forcing their way into market without any consideration of if their product is even good or wanted.
Win Ctrl Shift Alt Lopens LinkedIn btw.holy fucking shit it does
It does this so that keyboards and laptops with a dedicated LinkedIn key have a shortcut to enter.
Why there needs to be a LinkedIn key, I couldn’t tell you.
Because Microsoft owns LinkedIn
That’s not a good reason. Definitely doesn’t need to exist at all.
It’s not a good reason but when’s the last time Microsoft has been known for good decisions?
Its sold out.
You can just build things. Here. Have 12 buttons and 2 knobs.
but it’s artificial intelligence knobs tho
You might even say it’s GPT’s nipples
I don’t want to building things, I just want to tell everyone that I build things.
what does it even do
I already have a fuckin’ keyboard
Your keyboard has too many keys. All you need is tab and enter.
I just want prtscn and end
I guess the memory and storage crunch is affecting their product development too.
of course I’m going to pay $230 for a rather generic but overly branded device that’s fungible with historically available devices for the last 20 years in the $20-$100 price range
They spent $6.5 billion to hire Jony Ives and spent more to hire top Apple hardware employees. Then they had them steal secrets from Apple, which will cost them even more in the lawsuit.
The result? 1/3 of a keyboard
