Our second product is called Blindsight and it will, as the name suggests, enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see.
It is ready from an engineering standpoint. Just waiting on regulatory approval.
i guess humankind will die one day. technology won't.
everything we're building now -- the models, the machines, the systems, copies itself, improves itself, and doesn't need us to keep going.
we are the temporary part of this story. the technology is not.
@ClaudioSonnet i think that's where something like subvocal could help. wispr still needs you to speak, but subvocal is working on turning silent mouthing into text. still early, but maybe typing won't be the only quiet option
everybody seems to be building on voice right now. some companies like: wispr flow, granola, elevenlabs, vapi, gradium, retell and yesterday subvocal
these aren't all solving the same problem, but it got me thinking. will voice become a major way we use ai, or will it stay useful mainly for specific tasks like calls, dictation, and meeting notes?
if steve jobs were alive today, what would he bet on? idk, maybe vision pro, maybe ai, maybe something we haven't even thought of yet.
but i think i know what he wouldn't bet on.
a vertical touchscreen. he said it himself. your arm gets tired. it doesn't make sense.
and i don't think he would be happy with what apple is doing today. for the last five or ten years, it feels like they've been doing the same thing, just making it a little better every year. better cameras, better chips, better everything. but where's the next big thing? something that changes how we live or interact with technology?
and he wouldn't start by asking users what they want. he believed it was his job to figure out what people would want before they even knew it themselves.
- iPhone Duo is a flop
- MacBook touchscreen is a flop
- Apple homeview is useless
- AirPods are the same in years
- iPhones are the same in years
I want to give Apple money. A lot of money. They just don’t want it.
Why aren’t they going all in on the Vision Pro? Or a tiny portable device? Or just… AI?
The future of computers isn’t a device with a flat touchscreen and a keyboard.
Steve would agree, I think.
for the love of building software, you can take any software, reverse-engineer its whole architecture, and you can just build a cheaper and better version of the existing product.
just for the sake of love.