omg i just woke up and it’s the funniest thing ever
have you guys heard of rabbit r1, the new “teenage engineering” ai device of the “future”
people cracked it, turns out it’s just a cheap android 13 device running a system flutter app
@blobcat@acarson Next thing you’re going to tell me is my Amazon Fire TV is just an Android phone with a big screen attached, or car infotainment systems are just Android phones in the dashboard. Surely not. /S UX matters. You can use speech recognition on a PC to talk to a voice assistant, but putting it in a speaker simplifies it and makes it more approachable for the general public. Lots of things are like that.
@bryansmart@blobcat True, but it's still kind of humorous that this is being passed off as some new shiny awesome thing. Kind of like how iPhones are surrounded by a ton of hype still until you strip away the appearance of "magic".
@acarson@blobcat Think of our blindness products. Pacmate was an iPaq with a Braille keyboard and display. Most all of the notetakers now are the same, but Android phones. The new Braille'n'Speak is essentially a Raspberry Pi. All our revolutionary blindy AI smart glasses are just generic crap Android-based smart glasses with custom software overlays and marketing.
@acarson@blobcat Wasn't the Amazon Echo the same thing? All that was possible 20 years ago with Voice XML apps, but Amazon put it in a canister speaker, and now it's an AI assistant. Lots of us in the late 90s and early 2000s hooked Home Theater PCs to our TVs, but people put the PC in the TV, with a customized remote, and now it's a "smart TV". Did people think this thing was a genie or something? It's just marketing for non-techies. That's all.
> rabbit r1 is not an Android app... rabbit OS and LAM run on the cloud with very bespoke AOSP and lower level firmware modifications, therefore a local bootleg APK without the proper OS and Cloud endpoints won’t be able to access our service.
"it is not an Android app because if you try to run the APK on any Android that's not our proprietary Android gizmo, we'll block you"
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