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Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by dagmx »

woleium wrote: post #15
JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

But you do have to submit your signing keys to apple now, iirc :(

You’re thinking of the Google Play Store.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by felipemesquita »

JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

As if the issue with the iOS flashlight apps was that their developers did not instead hire teenage engineering to make an android box with a LED

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by infinitezest »

redwall_hp wrote: post #24
JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

Pluralizing code or code as a verb is always a red flag.

Seems more likely that its an artifact of being the guy's second language.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by beefnugs »

mattkenefick wrote: post #23

Not surprising since it's just an Android app

So far thats all it is. But the idea was that they want people to train their "generic app understand and operate" ai, which means they need powers above standard android (super insecure, but they really can not do it as standard android app)

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by croes »

JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

Ask the creators of f.lux

https://justgetflux.com/news/2016/01/14/apple.html

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by lawlessone »

ulfw wrote: post #18
jsheard wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their last venture before the R1 was an NFT rug-pull, they're just grifters who moved onto AI after crypto burned out. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1786037498507853852.html They're determined grifters for sure, bespoke hardware is a much bigger investment than shitting out some NFTs, but they're still probably going to run away and leave you with a useless device in a year.

That goes for half the AI "startups" out there sadly. They know how to get funding and the magic two letters is how.

So many of them are just API calls to chatGPT.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by mid-kid »

I'm not sure how this is any better/worse than if it actually were a custom OS or whatever. There is no technical reason for this to be a standalone device, just a marketing/corporate one. People are easily tricked by a physical object into thinking it will bring more value than it does, instead of being yet another brightly colored square in the sea of apps. Additionally, this allows them to control their ecosystem outside of the grasp of apple/google (even if it's based on android, they can modify the OS to do whatever and aren't bound by app/play store rules). Anything else they say has always been a front to gain sympathy.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by StrLght »

croes wrote: post #36
JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

Ask the creators of f.lux https://justgetflux.com/news/2016/01/14/apple.html

Did Apple steal something from them other than idea?

f.lux isn’t (and wasn’t?) open source and never had an iOS app in AppStore, AFAIK they had a custom Cydia repo for that.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by blackguardx »

redwall_hp wrote: post #24
JimDabell wrote: post #13

This has smelt bad for a while. Here’s a Twitter thread from January where the CEO explained why it couldn’t be an app. In it, he makes weird claims like: > by submitting as app, you submitting all your codes to them. think about it. remember there’s one of the most popular apps you want early days on app store was called ‘flashlight’ now see what happens? apple just incorporated that feature in iOS. so are building…

Pluralizing code or code as a verb is always a red flag.

Pluralizing code always sounded weird to me, but I think it was more common in certain regions and timeframes.

Code as a verb seems pretty common though.

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