Humane’s Ai Pin, a device that was expected to revolutionize the consumer tech industry, may not be the game-changer it was hyped up to be, said Bloomberg columnist Mark Gurman. Not A Replacement: Testing of the the Humane Ai Pin revealed that “smartphones aren’t going anywhere,” said Gurman in the latest installment of his “Power On” newsletter. “Humane hasn’t been shy about its ambitions: It wants to kill the smartphone — or at least reduce the need for one,” he added. The brainchild of former Apple Inc. managers, the Ai Pin, priced at $700, was designed to be a smartphone alternative, the c…
