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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 onlyrealcuzzo »

jsheard wrote: post #7
pmx wrote: post #2

It was very obvious that the original statement from Rabbit was knowingly false when they made it. It's weird to me how these companies dig themselves deeper by doing stuff like that, have they never experienced the real world before?

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.

The reason it's not on the App Store is it would take more effort to fake the number.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by nmfisher »

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.

That's an English-as-a-foreign-language thing. Particularly from Asia.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by karmajunkie »

as someone who bought one of these on a whim in the wee hours of the morning, has anyone managed to jailbreak the hardware for any productive purpose yet? seems like an interesting little device even if the rabbit folks are less than forthcoming about the nature of it.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by throwaway11460 »

Nullabillity wrote: post #27
djhworld wrote: post #19

One thing I've been wondering about is, could you build an Android app that acts like google assistant in the sense of you pressing a button/swiping gesture whatever and the "assistant" kicks in from any context on the phone (e.g. while you have another app open) I'm pretty sure you cannot replace Siri on iOS devices, but I'm not sure about Android. I know there is stuff like Samsung Bixby but I've not used it before…

> One thing I've been wondering about is, could you build an Android app that acts like google assistant in the sense of you pressing a button/swiping gesture whatever and the "assistant" kicks in from any context on the phone (e.g. while you have another app open) There is literally an API specifically for this, and the settings app has... an option for choosing which assistant should be invoked when you use the ass…

Yep, but no way to replace the voice activated assistant. Hotword activation requires system permissions.

And if you want to do things like allow the assistant to see what's inside other apps, again not possible without system permissions.

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by iamleppert »

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.

+1000%

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by afavour »

mg wrote: post #16

Would it be possible to base a device like the R1 on a Raspberry Pi and Linux instead of Android? If not, what would be missing?

I imagine you’d spend a lot of time replicating stuff Android already does well. Like battery management, cell connection, mobile UI, touch event handling, so on and so forth.

I’d almost be inclined to counter with the opposite: what would be gained by going for just Linux over tailoring Android?

Re: Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device

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Post by dmitrygr »

throwaway11460 wrote: post #47
Nullabillity wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> One thing I've been wondering about is, could you build an Android app that acts like google assistant in the sense of you pressing a button/swiping gesture whatever and the "assistant" kicks in from any context on the phone (e.g. while you have another app open) There is literally an API specifically for this, and the settings app has... an option for choosing which assistant should be invoked when you use the ass…

Yep, but no way to replace the voice activated assistant. Hotword activation requires system permissions. And if you want to do things like allow the assistant to see what's inside other apps, again not possible without system permissions.

Back in the day, you could (ab)use the accessibility api for screen reading. That’s still works, but now there is a proper “read screen contents” permission that the Google Lens app uses and any other app can request
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