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Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play.
Rabbit Inc. is unhappy about details of its tech stack being public, threatening action against unauthorized emulators.
AOSP is a logical choice for mobile hardware as it provides essential functionalities without the need for Google Play.

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Ubuntu is just a bunch of apps running on Debian! Did you know you can take Ubuntu app .deb files and run them on Debian?

Look. The R1 is stupid, but this isn't the reason why.

[–] lorkano@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Such a bad comparison. In the case of Debian and Ubuntu apps you run both apps on your hardware you already have. In case of rabbit, you could just run app on your phone instead of buying rabbit. Rabbit does not offer anything more than their app does when installed on android phone. It's even better on android phone because phone is faster.

[–] slimarev92@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Ubuntu is a piece of software. R1 is supposedly a piece of hardware that runs "Rabbit OS".

[–] SereneHurricane@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

The difference here is Ubuntu is open about the fact that stand on the shoulders of something greater than them.

R1 in contrast pretend that everything they've built is proprietary, and therefore no one could possibly come up with something similar.

When it's clearly not the case.

This is critical, not for the purpose of sales, but for the purpose of retaining investor value.

The whole thing reeks of an exercise to generate artificial investor value.

If investors find out that their so-called innovation can actually be done by anyone with some coding skills and connectivity to open AI, then the company value will drop like a hot turd.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

What? .deb aren't app files they are debian packages

What are you talking about? The article didn't mention Ubuntu once

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Apk literally stands for Android package. I'm making an analogy. 🤦