Submitted 2 weeks ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
Sure, it runs Android. What did people expect? They aren’t going to build a custom system from scratch.
The appeal is the form factor
They claim they made a custom os, so its totally reasonable to assume they are going to build a custom system from scratch
Oh ffs, what a shitty, juvenile website. All lowercase, no real explanation of what it does, other than track users by having everything go through their servers.
Sounds like a scam to me.
Why would you want them to build it from scratch? That would just drive up cost and hurt the repairability of the device.
If they put android in the marketing materials people would assume that it is google android.
Its entirely misleading
At least the stuff I’ve seen is more a criticism of the lack of functionality for the Rabbit, esspecially unique functionality or areas where it excels. The fact that it is basically all able to be contained in one app is viewed as evidence of the relative simplicity, and the fact that (as reviews highlighted) a phone provides a better interaction method compared to the dedicated devices just highlights how unnecessary the hardware is.
Also a little bit with it being advertised as “not an app”, when it turns out to be an app, and doesn’t have any special magic that makes it need that dedicated hardware.
What will you do when the company shuts down and it becomes a $200 brick?
Install a custom ROM and DIY
Remember, it is just android
Are you making this custom ROM? Seems unlikely anyone else will. To what end? A cheap phone does much more with better feel and battery life.
It’s just more on a computer with AI garbage.
Wait. So you’re saying the only appeal of the device, is the hardware?
200 bucks of what’s reportedly exactly as cheap-feeling as the price suggests?
There are much better devices to tinker with.
Yes.
They expected companies not to make badly-designed not-phones that depend entirely on internet services, most of which will undoubtedly be shuttered by the end of the year.
Looks like a toy, functions as one too
That’s not a bad thing in my head
I think the Rabbit R1 is an underbaked and dumb product. That said, Rabbit would have had to have had a few too many kicks to the head if they seriously considered not just running Android under the hood. Android is open source, and there is no good reason to not utilize the hundreds of millions of dollars that Google has already poured into developing mature a mature operating system with all the drivers and frameworks they need.
That’s the other one. The Rabbit thing is $200, which, not that I would buy one, is not too unreasonable for an AI tamagotchi
This seems to be the juicero for the AI
The appeal is the form factor
Looks like a red playdate.
Difference is, playdate is a fun toy, and that looks completely useless.
yes. Enjoy your garbage.
Looks like it, yup.
There is NO appeal for this product. We already carry an AI device, its called a smartphone. We already have an AI device on our bodies, its called a smartwatch. This thing solves no problem and creates a lot of new ones, like being an annoying tamagotchi that doesn’t even bring the pleasure to use it.
You are not the only one.
This weeks game of ‘Internet pile-on’
I honestly though this would be an honest discussion. Instead, I got down voted for not agreeing with the public narrative
Is not “public narrative” when the product is objectively trash. You don’t get to have an opinion about someone saying “don’t eat plutonium because you will die” and say “oh, I don’t think so, its your narrative”.
I don’t see any discussion below my honest opinion.
I do see a downvote though, whoever disagreed with me apparently preferred that to discussion too.
200usd is 10 months of chatgpt subscription. So it definitely has objective value. I’d buy it just make my own little bot.
I think it would be cool if they completely opened everything up. I want to tie this device into a self hosted LLM
But it’s like the free ChatGPT quality
You cant automate free chatgpt but you can easily automate rabbit’s api
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What amazes me is how many people care about this piece of crap in the first place. Like WHY is everyone talking about it? It could have been one of thousands of shitty tech products that I had never even heard of, but everyone wants to talk about it for some reason.
ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably getting paid to spread sentiment, but the guys writing their checks really only know the steps to marketing a product while forgetting that the product also has to be, ya know, good. Typical MBA shit: put out a new thing that does an old thing in a new, walled garden sort of way then go absolutely HAM on pushing all the units before the influencers that still have souls start bashing it
shellsharks@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
AI brainworm
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because it looks cool. The community slaughtered it before it had a chance.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This piece of e-waste was DOA before launch. The founders were with their heads too much up their own asses to realize that.