Sure, it runs Android. What did people expect? They aren’t going to build a custom system from scratch.
The appeal is the form factor
They claim they made a custom os, so its totally reasonable to assume they are going to build a custom system from scratch
https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-os
They make no mention of AOSP
And finally, the whole thing is just an app and the device is entirely pointless
edit. and after watching someone use it - whats the point?! Its just a phone with a much worse interface, a terrible form factor, and it doesn’t even function.
Is OP the rabbit CEO or something
Oh ffs, what a shitty, juvenile website. All lowercase, no real explanation of what it does, other than track users by having everything go through their servers.
Sounds like a scam to me.
And push to talk? Who uses that anymore? Welcome to 2000.
Why would you want them to build it from scratch? That would just drive up cost and hurt the repairability of the device.
If they put android in the marketing materials people would assume that it is google android.
Its entirely misleading
What amazes me is how many people care about this piece of crap in the first place. Like WHY is everyone talking about it? It could have been one of thousands of shitty tech products that I had never even heard of, but everyone wants to talk about it for some reason.
Probably getting paid to spread sentiment, but the guys writing their checks really only know the steps to marketing a product while forgetting that the product also has to be, ya know, good. Typical MBA shit: put out a new thing that does an old thing in a new, walled garden sort of way then go absolutely HAM on pushing all the units before the influencers that still have souls start bashing it
Because it looks cool. The community slaughtered it before it had a chance.
Looks like a toy, functions as one too
That’s not a bad thing in my head
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Looks like it, yup.
You are not the only one.
This weeks game of ‘Internet pile-on’
I though this would be an honest discussion. Instead, I got down voted for not agreeing with the public narrative
200usd is 10 months of chatgpt subscription. So it definitely has objective value. I’d buy it just make my own little bot or as casual toy. There’s no subscription or anything either.
I agree that the hate is meme levels of stupid. Sure the device sucks but people pick on the weirdest shit like “it uses android” or “it runs VM for actions that have no API” - well duuuuh.
But it’s like the free ChatGPT quality
You cant automate free chatgpt but you can easily automate rabbit’s api
I think it would be cool if they completely opened everything up. I want to tie this device into a self hosted LLM
