Same goes for the microphones and speakers, place at least 3 of them evenly around the donut for some nice beamforming.
I'm not sure how good OpenAI's device will have to be to be a success. The iPhone became a hit because it did what everyones phone did (calls and text) but had other cool features that other phones didn't and people upgraded phones every few years. I'm assuming that Amazon, Google, and Apple etc have teams working on better voice control and features that they'll roll out to existing speakers when or before OpenAI release a device.
At least Assistant still works on my "smart" clock, although it's getting slower that I wonder if they've replaced it with Gemini underneath.
A smart speaker sounds like an AI system with disabilities.
This.... does not sound like a design they would have stolen from Apple, unless Apple's design sensibilities have changed pretty drastically.
Although article does say Jony Ive collaborated.
Doesn't produce consumer hardware directly conflict with the other company goal of building out as much compute as possible for AI, making consumer hardware unaffordable in the process? Isn't this a bet directly against that company strategy?
Who asked for this other than investors?
I think this company has lost the plot.