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You should not be surprised. If you look at most of the jobs in the careers page for example [0], they mention the need for "Experience with framework-level cus
by rvz 3y ago
You should not be surprised. If you look at most of the jobs in the careers page for example [0], they mention the need for "Experience with framework-level customization of AOSP" and that the app is in "Flutter".
So this was immediately obvious that it was running Android. It is just that this was a nice and perfectly packaged scam, but not as expensive scam like the Humane AI Pin.
and yes. Humane is also using Android for their AI Pin devices. Unsurprisingly. [1]
[0] https://boards.greenhouse.io/rabbit/jobs/4229430007 https://boards.greenhouse.io/rabbit/jobs/4229430007
[1] https://humane.com/jobs/5045093004 https://humane.com/jobs/5045093004
- jsheard 3y agoThe kind of SoC that you would put into something like this often only has official support for Android, too. If you're making any kind of mobile thing then Android is almost certainly the path of least resistance nowadays. The Playstation Portal is another good example, it's a single-purpose device just for streaming games from a PS5 but it runs full blown Android, locked down so you can't use it for anything else.
- cubefox 3y agoUsing Android doesn't make it a scam.
- iancmceachern 3y agoThe scam is they are selling it as anything other than "phone with fewer features"
- oivey 3y agoThat’s not a scam, either. They’re not being dishonest about what the hardware really is. They’re probably at least being unrealistically optimistic about the future software, though.
- iancmceachern 3y agoThis review was interesting: https://youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc?si=-SZ1xUpj5-KE7xWD https://youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc?si=-SZ1xUpj5-KE7xWD
- iancmceachern 3y agoYes they are. It's not an AI assistant. It's a smartphone with fewer features and slightly different form factor.
- kube-system 3y agoAre Android tablets a scam too?
- iancmceachern 3y agoNo, because the title is honest. An Android tablet means exactly that. An "AI Assistant" does not. That implies it's something much more than it is.
- __m 3y agoWhy is it not an ai assistant?
- iancmceachern 3y agoThis reviewer seems to think it wasn't all that "assistanty" https://youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc?si=WGJLu6TwzYVgQ5wE https://youtu.be/ddTV12hErTc?si=WGJLu6TwzYVgQ5wE
- kube-system 3y agoSo? A scam is a scheme to profit by using dishonesty. Making something poorly, or cheaply, or not to anyone's liking has absolutely no bearing whatsoever as to whether something is a scam. Things can be (and many things are) gimmicky, early development, cheaply made, or made to someone else's preferences in a completely honest way. This is that.
- TillE 3y agoThe AI Pin is at least a wearable that puts a camera and a projector on your chest. That's not much, but it's something vaguely novel. The Rabbit thing is literally just a terrible phone.
- constantcrying 3y agoAbsolutely nothing wrong with using Android as a base for this.