Friend AI Pendant Returns With Voice, Higher Price
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- Friend AI Pendant returns with voice capability, enabling the wearable to talk back to users
- The relaunch carries a 'much bigger price tag' and is built around a hardware subscription business model
Why it matters: The pivot to a hardware subscription model and a significantly higher price point reshapes who can realistically buy in, departing from the original Friend's appeal to curious early backers.
