<story><title>The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>because if it&amp;#x27;s just an android app, you have to wonder why it&amp;#x27;s not just an app</text></item><item><author>jibe</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t why it should surprise, or bother, anyone that it is running android. Totally reasonable choice. What does it say that it is treated like some sort of gotcha? Were they supposed to build their own AIOS?</text></item><item><author>tb1989</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me. In my opinion, many companies try to achieve outrageous premiums by taking the route of teen engineering (the originator of hype). In addition to rabbit, there is also a series of nothing products.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t convince the tech fetishists. In fact, I think te&amp;#x27;s contribution to music is very limited, even harmful, especially when I see the latest Yamaha even imitating te, which feels a bit funny and ridiculous. We need real innovation and democratic pricing.&lt;p&gt;By the way, if you care, you can learn about the history of rabbit’s founder. Let&amp;#x27;s just say, in certain circles, this is a recognized liar. So I’m not surprised at all when it was said a few days ago that Rabbit stole everyone’s passwords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Johnny555</author><text>One reason was mentioned in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;After all, the Rabbit R1’s launcher app is intended to be preinstalled in the firmware and be granted several privileged, system-level permissions — only some of which we were able to grant — so some of the functions would likely fail if we tried&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the statement from Rabbit in the article says essentially the same:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;rabbit OS and LAM run on the cloud with very bespoke AOSP and lower level firmware modifications, therefore a local bootleg APK without the proper OS and Cloud endpoints won’t be able to access our service&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app</title><url>https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adgjlsfhk1</author><text>because if it&amp;#x27;s just an android app, you have to wonder why it&amp;#x27;s not just an app</text></item><item><author>jibe</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t why it should surprise, or bother, anyone that it is running android. Totally reasonable choice. What does it say that it is treated like some sort of gotcha? Were they supposed to build their own AIOS?</text></item><item><author>tb1989</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me. In my opinion, many companies try to achieve outrageous premiums by taking the route of teen engineering (the originator of hype). In addition to rabbit, there is also a series of nothing products.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t convince the tech fetishists. In fact, I think te&amp;#x27;s contribution to music is very limited, even harmful, especially when I see the latest Yamaha even imitating te, which feels a bit funny and ridiculous. We need real innovation and democratic pricing.&lt;p&gt;By the way, if you care, you can learn about the history of rabbit’s founder. Let&amp;#x27;s just say, in certain circles, this is a recognized liar. So I’m not surprised at all when it was said a few days ago that Rabbit stole everyone’s passwords.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dan_quixote</author><text>&amp;gt; why it&amp;#x27;s not just an app&lt;p&gt;If it&amp;#x27;s just an app...their hardware has no reason to exist AND they are competing directly with Google&amp;#x2F;Microsoft.</text></comment>