Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant (opens in new tab)

I really doubt that 400M number. They try to get me to login to Threads see comments on Instagram posts. Technically I am monthly "active" user, but not really.

I see more Bluesky links in the wild than Threads and they claim only 27M users.

Threads is an internally developed Twitter clone when Twitter launched in 2006 and Threads launched in 2023? I'm not saying they didn't build it, but it was not an original product design; they waited until there was already a market, launched and deployed it to Facebook users. I will give you the Ray-Ban glasses, but even that was a product that is a better version of Google Glass, so still not really a unique product.

i am surprise ai glasses are not more popular. i would love to wear those to appliance store and get info about appliance quickly.

is there any alternative ray ban meta . i hate buying from zuck.

8x scaling over a time period where the available size and performance of single-image systems increased by more than 8x seems… if not trivial, at least not an “insane achievement.”

Scaling a product like that is an incredible engineering achievement, but I am speaking specifically about product development. What other products has Facebook innovated internally, worked through the product-market fit, and scaled itself? Again, my point is that they have a ton of resources and a huge existing user base, but the only successes they seem to have are purchasing companies that are ramping. They deploy engineers and connect to the existing user base, but they aren't innovative in product design.

Was it just because WhatsApp was already generally well designed when they purchased it?

“Scaling” as in “making sure the infrastructure can handle much higher load”, or as in “making sure the product remains genuinely useful to people, so that the user numbers go up and not down”? For both, it didn’t happen by itself, but it’s far from rocket science. A sane team of 15-20 people can do it.

Scaling a product from 0 to 450 MM is a humongous achievement.

Going from 450 to 3300 seems rather small in terms of technical achievement. If you can serve 450 you can serve 3300 MM frankly.

It's insane to record people without their consent with devices that are designed for concealed recording. It's not insane to fight back.

Yes. The issue with Meta glasses and those pendants are that they are designed for concealment, designed to invade the privacy of other people. Some might argue that mobile phones can also be used to make secret recordings. However, they are not primarily designed for this and it is a side-effect of being a multifunctional tool. However, whenever anyone uses Meta glasses or their pendants in public, one should assume that they may behave maliciously and take appropriate action against such ppeople. Those people will only learn if we collectively decide that punching and breaking their stupid glasses is the right way to handle this.

It is not a disagreement, but rather an act of self-defence in response to an act of violence.

What is so good about limitless over the others?

Exactly, They are “expensive” because they are harvesting every single piece of data about you that they can possible collect

Most people know something like that is happening but they have no idea the vast knowledge graph of information that is available for sale about them.

And these days that data isn’t just being used for advertising.