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Funnily enough Amazon did try making a subsidised smartphone with deep integration of their services and it was a disastrous flop. Kindle and Fire TV succeeded

Funnily enough Amazon did try making a subsidised smartphone with deep integration of their services and it was a disastrous flop. Kindle and Fire TV succeeded by not directly competing with smartphones, but rather complementing them by being good at things that smartphones can do but not well. If OpenAI plans to fork Android into their own thing then I can't see it going any better than Amazon's attempt did, and if it's a wearable like Humane/Rabbit then it needs an answer to "why isn't this an app".

IanCal 2y ago
To be fair the phone failures were at least in part due to Googles anti competitive behaviours that they are being (have been?) fined for.
codetrotter 2y ago
> fork Android into their own thing They could make a custom version of Android and make a device that delivers what the Rabbit R1 said it would but didn’t. A device that can run Android apps, but where the device can interact with the apps on its own based on your voice commands. The idea of the Rabbit R1 was good, kind of. OpenAI could pull it off.