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As others have commented - this is unsurprising - and makes a lot of sense from a technical perspective. Don't see this as scammy at all. And as for the product
by rjrogerto 2y ago
As others have commented - this is unsurprising - and makes a lot of sense from a technical perspective. Don't see this as scammy at all. And as for the product - the main qualm seems to be the lack of utility vs cost - which again does not seem scammy to me.
- NotYourLawyer 2y agoThe scam is that the hardware is unnecessary, expensive, and strictly worse than just using your phone.
- danparsonson 2y agoThat doesn't make it a scam though, just a waste of money. A scam would be something like, you order it and what turns up is a photo of the device with a QR code on the back linking to a download for the app.
- serf 2y agothe line isn't that clear cut. broken promises that create a sale could certainly be construed as 'scammy'.
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- danparsonson 2y agoI don't know too much about this product - did they promise not to run it on Android?
- bluSCALE4 2y agoThe scam is that it uses Playwright and no LLM actually exists.
- asadm 2y agoMarket isn't an optimization problem. Market can decide what is necessary or isn't. I would pick this up for $200 if the models were running locally.
- msephton 2y agoI think we all would. But realistically no $200 device is going to run models locally.
- dartos 2y agoYou can run models on anything if you try
- NotYourLawyer 2y agoThey don’t though. And if they did, it would cost more than $200. Like, say, a phone.
- bgun 2y agoThe article says nothing about the R1 being “scammy” - only that its functionality is overlapped by devices you likely already own. Also unsurprising for a $200 device, which is only even marketed to be a novel interface. Honestly if it’s less addictive than a smartphone due to being more limited, that could be reason enough to carry one.
- Gigachad 2y agoIt’s not that it being based on android is the surprising part, it’s that they designed and sold a physical device which could be replaced with an app on the hardware you already have. The whole device seems to be “it’s Siri but as a standalone device” and since you still have to take your phone with you, it seems to provide no value.
- brokenmachine 2y ago>it’s that they designed and sold a physical device which could be replaced with an app on the hardware you already have. Smartwatches are exactly that, and some people buy those.
- Gigachad 2y agoSmart watches do quite a lot that my phone can’t. Primarily health/fitness tracking, and being on my wrist. This device is essentially a phone in every way but massively less functional. I can’t see a single thing it does better or more conveniently.
- ec109685 2y agoNobody was going to pay $200 for that app w/ 85 gazillion LLM wrappers already out there, so they need some other form factor to get traction.
- sniggers 2y agoIt can do a lot more than ChatGPT's app, let alone Siri which can do even less.