I think the Rabbit R1 is an underbaked and dumb product. That said, Rabbit would have had to have had a few too many kicks to the head if they seriously considered not just running Android under the hood. Android is open source, and there is no good reason to not utilize the hundreds of millions of dollars that Google has already poured into developing mature a mature operating system with all the drivers and frameworks they need.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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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.
Because it looks cool. The community slaughtered it before it had a chance.
At least the stuff I've seen is more a criticism of the lack of functionality for the Rabbit, esspecially unique functionality or areas where it excels. The fact that it is basically all able to be contained in one app is viewed as evidence of the relative simplicity, and the fact that (as reviews highlighted) a phone provides a better interaction method compared to the dedicated devices just highlights how unnecessary the hardware is.
Basically, its competing against phones in functionality, but a phone at that price can do everything it can and better, plus so much more. Even worse when considering everyone also already owns a phone and won't be able to replace with a Rabbit.
What will you do when the company shuts down and it becomes a $200 brick?
Install a custom ROM and DIY. That's what I would likely do anyway for privacy
Remember, it is just android
Are you making this custom ROM? Seems unlikely anyone else will. To what end? A cheap phone does much more with better feel and battery life.
It's just more ~~on a computer~~ with AI garbage.
No other device has the same form factor as far as I can tell. All of the influencers have single handedly screwed this company over.
The company screwed themselves by hyping a nothing burger. The influencers just helped unaware consumers to not fall for this scam.
Looks like a toy, functions as one too
That's not a bad thing in my head
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
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.