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Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play.
Rabbit Inc. is unhappy about details of its tech stack being public, threatening action against unauthorized emulators.
AOSP is a logical choice for mobile hardware as it provides essential functionalities without the need for Google Play.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's an experimental device and by buying it you invest into r&d. It's not meant to replace a smartphone as of now, but similar ones eventually will.

My point stands, because they are offering a completely new (but obv lacking) experience with novel design solutions. What they made is a toy, which is not really unusual for teenage engineering. But if they do as they did with other devices in the past this thing might actually rock in the future. They are not inexperienced and usually over super long support for their devices.

TE is way older than Nothing and Playdate btw...

[–] aesthelete 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s an experimental device and by buying it you invest into r&d.

This is laughably untrue. By buying this you've proven to them that their marketing oriented approach to product development is correct, and that customers will throw away good money on half-designed, disposable shit.

By the looks of this shitty project, they spent most of their money on design idiots that think they're the next coming of Steve Jobs, and blathering marketing morons that think if they say AI and "the future" enough that it doesn't matter that the products they actually deliver are half-done, also-ran, clout-chasing garbage with hardware from the clearance section of Alibaba.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No, they won't. Because it's just a shitty downgraded smartphone controlled by a super shady company with massive security and privacy concerns.