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> 1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product? It only needs to last a few months until all the d
by bArray 3y ago
> 1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product?
It only needs to last a few months until all the devices are palmed off to kids. There is a 0% chance this makes it to year 2.
> 2) Website has no information on the people behind this.
All the better to run with the money. Given there won't be a second device, they should have charged more. I suspect they charged less because it simply performs _that_ poorly.
> 3) In the keynote, the demo of logging into to other services like Spotify appears to just be stealing the auth tokens from the laptop and shipping them to the R1 device. Not a good sign.
It's worse, it's not processed locally at all. That means that it's all done in some random cloud.
> 4) The founder's voice-over insists that "we value privacy" and "we do not hack" and "we do not create fake users." Protests too much?
I've never murdered anybody and there's no point looking in the forest!