All that philosophical grandiosity aside, it still isn’t clear whether people are actually willingly to invest in these kinds of devices in the first place. Plaud has a compelling use case, but it is entering a crowded field where it has to compete with other devices and, well, thousands of apps on smartphones—the devices people already carry around all day.
And users may find that the boring old tools they’re already using are more mature and more effective than any of these splashy inventions.