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people 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 th
by darepublic 2y ago
people 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.