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Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by hysan »

arrakeenrevived wrote: post #11

His spiel starting at 14 minutes in about how seemingly every tech product these days is a partially-baked, unfinished, barely even usable, yet full-priced product with a vague promise of "it'll receive updates and be better" rings very true, and is frustrating as hell. Marques specifically mentions it happening in video games, cars (Tesla self-driving), smartphones, and these AI things as particular offenders. I've…

I love this rant of his. This trend towards selling unfinished products at full price is corporations exploiting yet another lever to squeeze more money out of people. And that lever is to treat customers not as customers but as investors. Whenever you purchase an unfinished product on the promise of a more complete product in the future, you are taking on the risk that that future product will not be delivered. You are being used as leverage and even worse, you receive no share of profit for any future success because you’ve already paid full price. You are an interest free loan that does not need to be paid back! I wish that more influential people would call this practice out for what it is and try to stop people from being exploited in this manner.

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by ein0p »

TrevorFSmith wrote: post #73
ein0p wrote: post #34

When I see such things I immediately ask myself a question, why is this not an app? There’s no good answer to that question in this case. IDK why they even bothered with the hardware side. It’d seem to me that you could do it later if app gets sufficient traction

Apple and Google take 30% of app revenue and love to implement in the OS the best features of popular apps. It's a bad deal for most businesses.

Is it a better deal to blow your entire runway + opportunity cost on hardware that nobody wants?

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by jasonm23 »

ein0p wrote: post #34

When I see such things I immediately ask myself a question, why is this not an app? There’s no good answer to that question in this case. IDK why they even bothered with the hardware side. It’d seem to me that you could do it later if app gets sufficient traction

Because money, we are really just talking about a company here, that has no real interest in serving customers.

When they decided to charge $80 for a plastic bag to carry the op1, that was made abundantly clear.

They don't make good products. What they do well is hype and style over substance.

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by abrichr »

fooker wrote: post #60

There are two things about this I am looking forward do. Generative UI, and teach mode as mentioned in this video. If they manage to get these to work, I believe a future iteration of this product can seriously challenge smartphones. I doubt the science is there yet though. It's easy to over promise here.

> teach mode

We're building this over at https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt. OpenAdapt learns to automate tasks in desktop apps by observing human demonstrations.

Early demo: https://twitter.com/abrichr/status/1784307190062342237

Contributions and feedback are welcome and encouraged :)

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by Apocryphon »

windexh8er wrote: post #79
imtringued wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you actually watched his videos you would have seen the one where he actively calls out that a lot of his viewers aren't interested in the product at all and just want to see another high production value video from him just to kill time, with no intention of ever buying anything. "The entertainment you would watch" would probably amount to nothing and you probably wouldn't even finish the video, because it would…

I'm not sure why I would want to watch his videos if he's basically telling people that he's an entertainer - and that he caters to that. I see why he would do that, but that seems to bolster my assertion that his focus is on production, not review.

Most review videos are entertainment- and that includes accounts that focus on performance and include metrics, too. The medium makes the message. Been that way since Will it Blend?

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by Apocryphon »

windexh8er wrote: post #77
Moomoomoo309 wrote: post #71

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You really should watch some of his videos if you think this. Marques has been doing this for years at this point, he's a reviewer, not an influencer. The clickbait titles is purely a YouTube thing, that is only indicative of the video being on YT, unfortunately.

I don't believe we share the same barrier to entry for objectivity, is really what it comes down to. He's sponsored, he's an influencer. From a recent article [0]: "The 30-year-old YouTube kingpin makes money from sponsorship deals with brands, merchandise sales, and a whole lot of ad revenue from YouTube." Where do you draw the line between his format and his sponsorships? And how do you know that he's "reviewing" w…

Looking at the comments to the Buick video, that seems to be the exception to the rule- commenters dislike it but express they like his other ones. Of course, perhaps he’s had more sponsored videos since then, but again, maybe they’re exceptions to the rule.

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Post by Apocryphon »

water-data-dude wrote: post #70
ninth_ant wrote: post #32

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The Apple Watch is a useful device. It integrates seamlessly with my phone, has various fitness tracking features including water activities, delivers important notifications without making noise, and gives me access to use voice commands on my phone. Its overnight charging gives me a nightstand alarm clock. It's not a world-changing device, but it's a very useful accessory.

This probably isn’t true for everyone, but being able to pause and rewind audio (podcasts or books on tape) without pulling out my phone is a big quality of life improvement for me.

Feels like they’ll probably have more gestures built into AirPods sooner or later.

Re: Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]

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Post by phmqk76 »

cjk2 wrote: post #44
ninth_ant wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Apple Watch is a useful device. It integrates seamlessly with my phone, has various fitness tracking features including water activities, delivers important notifications without making noise, and gives me access to use voice commands on my phone. Its overnight charging gives me a nightstand alarm clock. It's not a world-changing device, but it's a very useful accessory.

50/50. I wore one for nearly 4 years. Then one day I took it off because I was travelling somewhere really dangerous. And I never put it back on again. Turned out it was more ritual than utility for me.

More or less same with me. I wore mine for years, and upgraded a couple of times. But interacting with it is awkward, and my Apple Watches have easily been the most glitchy Apple products I’ve ever owned. I stopped wearing mine about 6 months ago and I don’t miss it. In fact, I starting buying watches I like - vintage digital watches and mechanical watches, and I’m much happier.
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