Desperate Times, Desperate Measures (www.wheresyoured.at)
from Powderhorn@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org on 27 May 22:13
https://beehaw.org/post/20247946

I thought I couldn’t be more disappointed in parts of the tech media, then OpenAI went and bought former Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive’s “Io,” a hardware startup that it initially invested in to create some sort of consumer tech device. As part of the ridiculous $6.5 billion all-stock deal to acquire Io, Jony Ive will take over all design at OpenAI, and also build a device of some sort.

At this point, no real information exists. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says it might have a “form factor as compact and elegant as an iPod shuffle,” yet when you look at the tweet everybody is citing Kuo’s quotes from, most of the “analysis” is guesswork outside of a statement about what the prototype might be like.

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