I don't think the tokens are getting transferred to the device. It seems everything happens on the cloud, so the tokens must have been stored on the cloud too.
It's a 2018 spec Android device. $50 of electronic parts, $150 for the custom case.
It just looks like OAuth to me?
It only needs to last a few months until all the devices are palmed off to kids. There is a 0% chance this makes it to year 2.
> 2) Website has no information on the people behind this.
All the better to run with the money. Given there won't be a second device, they should have charged more. I suspect they charged less because it simply performs _that_ poorly.
> 3) In the keynote, the demo of logging into to other services like Spotify appears to just be stealing the auth tokens from the laptop and shipping them to the R1 device. Not a good sign.
It's worse, it's not processed locally at all. That means that it's all done in some random cloud.
> 4) The founder's voice-over insists that "we value privacy" and "we do not hack" and "we do not create fake users." Protests too much?
I've never murdered anybody and there's no point looking in the forest!
With AI you are always the product - how else can it be "trained".
1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product?
2) Website has no information on the people behind this.
3) In the keynote, the demo of logging into to other services like Spotify appears to just be stealing the auth tokens from the laptop and shipping them to the R1 device. Not a good sign.
4) The founder's voice-over insists that "we value privacy" and "we do not hack" and "we do not create fake users." Protests too much?
5) They're not really addressing the trust-building necessary to convince people to use this like a personal assistant. It's waaaay too opaque.
Neat product, though. Maybe they're just launching super early, nothing is figured out yet, the website isn't done, etc.