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Hands-On With the Rabbit r1 Pocket AI Assistant
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Is there a reason to have this type of AI functionality in anything other than a watch?
When you create a new product with a completely different interface, you'd better nail the implementation of it. Perhaps this and the Pin didn't spend enough time on that. Apple always takes their time before releasing a new class of product, and usually they get it right. (And sometimes they screw up established products, like the Magic Mouse.)
Great Scott, everyone is suddenly reviewing it this week: Mashable, The Verve, CNET, Engadget, and the list goes on. It has no market if Siri worked properly. At home, Alexa reins supreme.
I said it from the start. It’s just investor media hype. The reality is it’s just another LLM packaged into a pointless, gimmicky device.
Buyers have all been conned!
It’s called technology and understanding the market and competition allows you to see how trends are evolving and why Apple and it’s competitors are developing the way they are.
The reality is all smartphone platforms will offer this and better directly in their OS’s. No doubt iOS 18 will smash this, as will the next Android OS. Moreover, the “rabbit” element will be part of our watches and you have a seamless setup. As others have said, the R1 is dead on arrival.
I believe the Large App Model (LAM) and Large Language Model working together is exactly what iOS and most UI of the future need to get a grasp on, along with the fluidity of contextual spoken language and screen information. It has the potential to completely simplify and change the way we use our phones from the way we use them today.
The Rabbit R1 is pretty cool but smartphones are apex predators and they are not about to compromise their position on the food chain when all of the R1's features can be incorporated on the system level of iOS or Android with relative ease. Or more simply, an app.
The Rabbit R1 is pretty cool but smartphones are apex predators and they are not about to compromise their position on the food chain when all of the R1's features can be incorporated on the system level of iOS or Android with relative ease. Or more simply, an app.
No need to spend money on a gadget for that - I already searched for it on Google Images but it found no useful results 🤦♂️
Yeah, but if Apple put one out there would be a line down the block to buy one for $499.00.
This!
Even if these products worked perfectly and delivered on all promises, they'd still only be a new OS update or a great AI app away from being obsolete.
Before launching, they had the first-movers advantage over many products that we won't see until mid-to-late 2024 or sometime in 2025.
But they've now largely squandered their head-start and all the hype they garnered.
Silly rabbit. AI is just software, not a separate $199 device!
And yet you did and you commented about it. Seems like you’re actually interested, after all.
This kind of article is about technology and the industry that Apple a part of. Ignore the environment and you can develop tunnel vision. What Rabbit R1 and the Humane AI Pin are doing are examples of a technology that Apple has said that they will be incorporating into their devices. Think of this as a preview of what we could see from Apple. Hopefully Apple’s version will be much better integrated because integration is something that they do well.
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