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It's a neat idea but I'm not sure what the audience is. "It's simpler", but you still need to manage a bunch of integrations from a computer? It can't seem to m

• Krasnol 3y ago
  My elderly parents were my idea too, and the fact that I can manage the integration from my computer is actually a plus here. It's not like you have to do it all the time. It has to be able to make phone calls and text on WhatsApp/Signal too, though.
  • canucker2016 3y ago
    the screen looks like it may be too small for people who have vision problems - no idea if one can adjust the text size used. But the device does "say" the text, so if the user has decent hearing, they could rely on the audio versus reading the text. Now if multiple in the same area were using this device, it may get chaotic/confusing, but no moreso than multiple people having loud voice conversations in one place.
• tomtheelder 3y ago
  I think the intended audience is really anyone and everyone. It’s a very grand vision. I definitely see the appeal. I do not like owning and using a smartphone. A more functional device with a pared back interface is exactly what I would want, and I think they’re _is_ a decent slice of people out there who agree. You see that in the dumb phone and minimalist phone market that’s popped up. That said my experiences with LLMs are that they are woefully underbaked for this kind of thing, and it’s a really tough sell to me on a privacy basis as well. But for older folks I’m not sure I agree that the market is missed. I suspect the idea would be that you would manage the web portion for your grandfather and then he can just chat to the device. Unclear if it can make calls though, that does seem like a miss!
• ggandhi 3y ago
  I found this site few years back which was a real simple device for this task. http://ownfone.com/ http://ownfone.com/ seems rabbit surely is giving a miss to this audience who needs simpler device