The ultimate issue is exactly what you said; phones exist. I’m not carrying another voice assistant around when both Siri and Google Assistant can be installed on my phone.

Based on MKBHD’s review this whole product category definitely screams “solution in search of a problem”

Absolutely a grift.

The CEO is a fucking joke. This is their bio on linkedin.

Serial Entrepreneur, semi - Pro Lamborghini Super Trofeo racer, music producer, car and vintage synth collector.

Solutions looking for problems is a mainstay in multiple industries from material science to chemistry. It's not necessarily a bad idea.

They're a solution looking to solve a problem that already has a well established better solution. The modern smart phone and voice assistats have been around for 14+ years....

For all these Ai devices can currently accomplish, our budget $200 phones can do an unmeasurable amount more.

If anyrhing, they should be focusing on the voice assistant aspect - "Hey google, add nearest gas station to my trip" "Here's a list of gas stations (I know you're driving but please review this list and select one using the tiny select button)" {presses button} "Please enable location data analytics to continue"

I think there's already a way to forward Google Home requests directly to ChatGPT, I might be wrong though.

In addition to being able to run the exact same thing on that phone you already have, too.

Their device does not have any specific hardware for their usage. Even if Google and Apple don't bring any improvement to their own solution, soon enough someone is bound to just provide an "assistant AI app" with a subscription, proxying openai requests and using the touchscreen, camera, micro and speaker that are already there instead of making you buy a new set of those.

Which is hilarious because they are actually marketing jokes where this is the punchline

That was exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. I didn't know that's what they were doing before this, but after reading multiple reviews saying what a piece of shit the Rabbit is, I was not at all surprised they used to hawk NFTs.

You just don't get it bro, owning jpegs is the future

Scamming people that missed the Bitcoin boom

Segmentation

Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like "grifters".

I'm guessing they won't be for long.

Luck. The one that was formed by former English Nijisanji managers went immediately bankrupt, and also had dire consequences to Nijisanji itself (which also tried to step into NFTs at one point if it wasn't for the talents) as those managers were now missing from the company.

Basically if you were lucky and able to sell your NFTs for a hyperinflated price to be used in money-laundering schemes while you also profiting off of them on every transaction. If not, then your life savings were wasted on some crappy commissions.

Pure hype.

Plus big tech companies are scared to lose out to each other, so they'll buy into it even as a known risk.

Save a few thousands for incorporation fees also some bs experience that you can use to boast to vc investors

Enshittification is used plenty often enough, we don't need to be using it incorrectly imo.

https://www.engadget.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-adorable-ai-powered-assistant-co-designed-by-teenage-engineering-001051537.html

"Adorable" is their word, not mine. I think it's pretty damn ugly.