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Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Post by tuckerman »

wmf wrote: post #96
infotainment wrote: post #95

As usual with Teenage Engineering, I love the hardware design, but this aspect of the software is a letdown: > rabbit OS operates apps on our secured cloud, so you don’t have to. Log into the apps you’d like rabbit to use on your system through the rabbit hole to relay control. You only need to do this once per app. So things don't run on the device, but on the cloud. Unfortunate.

The device is $200 and appears to be smaller than a phone so yeah, it does not run AI locally. I assume Siri doesn't run locally on Apple Watch or AirPods either.

Not that it refutes your general point, but the latest Apple watch runs (at least some) Siri requests locally on the device.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Post by yieldcrv »

leetharris wrote: post #10

I am almost never a hater on people trying ambitious things, but man this is one of the most "doomed to fail" things I've ever seen. You've got absolutely insane market saturation by two major players that have some of the most advanced AI teams on the planet. Almost nobody is going to buy an "LLM-first phone," they will just wait for Apple or Google to put an LLM into their existing phone.

although this way will be an L for these guys, it will show demand and spur competition faster

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Post by xcv123 »

scblock wrote: post #100

How can you so badly fail at even saying what the hell this is on your shitty glossy web site? What is this? The page is just a list of hardware 'features' with large but unclear pictures. "push to talk button" ok, so? "far-field mike" ok, so? "360 degree rotational eye" so what? "analog scroll wheel" that does what? "usb-c plus sim card slot" which gives me what? There's a video but I shouldn't have to watch a video…

Seems like AI generated garbage

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Post by astroalex »

scblock wrote: post #100

How can you so badly fail at even saying what the hell this is on your shitty glossy web site? What is this? The page is just a list of hardware 'features' with large but unclear pictures. "push to talk button" ok, so? "far-field mike" ok, so? "360 degree rotational eye" so what? "analog scroll wheel" that does what? "usb-c plus sim card slot" which gives me what? There's a video but I shouldn't have to watch a video…

I totally agree. The video does actually show the product, and it looks interesting, but the other parts of the website are a big turn off.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

#108

Post by slashink »

tuckerman wrote: post #101
wmf wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The device is $200 and appears to be smaller than a phone so yeah, it does not run AI locally. I assume Siri doesn't run locally on Apple Watch or AirPods either.

Not that it refutes your general point, but the latest Apple watch runs (at least some) Siri requests locally on the device.

Yeah it sets timers, that's about it. Not saying this product is good but the intention of what they are trying to enable here is a world apart from what Apple is running on the watch.

Re: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

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Post by tapoxi »

It's a neat idea but I'm not sure what the audience is. "It's simpler", but you still need to manage a bunch of integrations from a computer? It can't seem to make phone calls?

I just want something that I can give my 93 year old grandfather so he can order a ride and get reminders about his prescriptions. Rabbit seems like a device that misses an audience that actually needs a simpler smartphone.

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