The thing is, most people don't actually want to solve their phone addiction even if they say they do.
In reality, they want to read news while waiting at a doctor's office, play games while they take the subway, and see Instagram updates from friends throughout the day.
And if you already want a less capable device, it's called an Apple Watch, but it comes with a little screen that is way more useful than laser projection, and will soon surely have a powerful LLM it can access. (And paired with AirPods it does a much better job preserving your audio privacy.)
So it's hard to see how this is going to succeed, when Apple can just copy the good part (LLM) as part of the Watch.
In reality, they want to read news while waiting at a doctor's office, play games while they take the subway, and see Instagram updates from friends throughout the day.
And if you already want a less capable device, it's called an Apple Watch, but it comes with a little screen that is way more useful than laser projection, and will soon surely have a powerful LLM it can access. (And paired with AirPods it does a much better job preserving your audio privacy.)
So it's hard to see how this is going to succeed, when Apple can just copy the good part (LLM) as part of the Watch.