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Rabbit R1 as an Android App
- gnabgib 2y agoHN discussion [0] (70 points, 5 hours ago, 44 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453
- darepublic 2y agopeople have been hard on rabbit r1, but ultimately it is a step toward future I feel. And they bury further down in the article that it requires permissions that the android won't grant.
- karlgkk 2y agoWhat future though? And it’s easily replaced by a hardware button on a phone. I expect Google and Apple will release theirs this year.
- aitchnyu 2y agoI got a Bixby button on my Samsung. Am I living in the future? /s
- fortyseven 2y agoIt's fine to take baby steps, but you can't sell a proof of concept as a real product. People will hate you, and it'll taint their perception of similar products going forward.
- alpaca128 2y agoSo why don't they sell a phone with customized Android that does what they want, like every single Android brand other than Pixel? The Rabbit R1 is doomed to be obsolete as soon as Google and Apple add similar functionality to their OS.
- agsnu 2y agoProbably because a competitive phone is a much bigger effort than a special purpose device
- rys 2y agoIt’s way more fun to set a huge pile of VC money on fire.
- radiorental 2y agoBecause its Teenage Engineering and hardware designwankery, not product design, is what they do. Need a BT speaker? That'll be $550 thank you, btw the speaker cones are completely exposed because it looks cool.
- dbbk 2y ago> it requires permissions that the android won't grant No, it really doesn't.
- multimoon 2y agoThat’s just because it needs installed as a system app (read: shipped with the ROM) to access system level permissions. Android will grant them, since it grants them on the Rabbit’s ROM like android would to any system app. It’s still just an android app.
- stephencoyner 2y agoIn a few years we will look back at this period in AI with niche hardware startups and companies pouring millions into chatbot UIs and think how early it all was. The future lives in a thick fog and someone has to venture through. Bless the first to try and find it, but they’re all missing
- dbbk 2y agoMaybe, maybe not. How do we fix the core issue of it making shit up all the time?
- alternatex 2y agoLooks like handwaving it as the fog of the future will do for now.. I don't see any progress made in this area. It seems like most of the investment is going to the interesting "look what the AI can do" stuff instead of correctness. I'm assuming the interesting stuff is easier to market.
- andrewmcwatters 2y agoIt’s incredible to me that people think they can replace phones. It’s more likely that phones will evolve into whatever takes off next.
- squarefoot 2y agoLots of things are just Android devices. This allows their manufacturers to easily hire people who is comfortable developing on a known platform, and also repurpose very cheap obsolete hardware that couldn't run a modern phone but would still be usable for a stripped down OS that runs only one app. And of course by being hard+soft solutions they can charge a lot more compared to a simple "normal" app. All good from a business POV, but most of those devices are tight closed with locked bootloaders and other protections against repurposing, which turns them into e-waste once their services are terminated. Pollution issues aside, an old board that runs only Android 4.x is pretty much unusable for everything interesting, while being able to unlock the same board and install Armbian, DietPI or similar OS, turns it into a completely different device.
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- captn3m0 2y agoWait, if this is AOSP powered, don’t they have to publish the kernel sources under GPL?
- ChrisArchitect 2y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217453
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40206063
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoI Witnessed the Future of AI, and It's a Broken Toy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205666