Overhype and underdeliver

I’m reading these quotes from the articles about OpenAI buying Jony Ive’s company, and promising to deliver something in the future:

“the chance to do the biggest thing we’ve ever done as a company here,”

 

Altman suggested the $6.5 billion acquisition has the potential to add $1 trillion in value to OpenAI, according to a recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

 

The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone.

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