Re:Ask HN: What's Rabbit R1 business model?
by osener on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:36PM
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Same as Humane Ai Pin, Apple Vision Pro etc. They’re making a bet and hoping that when the world moves on from smartphones, they’ll be _the_ platform for the next frontier.
In software we see a lot of these “re-imaginings” come and go, see Arc browser, new cloud databases and myriad other things rolling the dice and hoping that they can disrupt and monetize later.
I think this is rarer in hardware because
a. It is harder, requires more planning, inventory management, higher standards and budget
b. Higher barrier to entry means not a lot of small players taking risks. I suppose it takes a technological shift like AI or spatial computing to re-imagine hardware interaction as well.
The saddest part is, when software companies come and go all that is wasted is some VC money and Twitter rants. With hardware, we’re making more junk to fill up oceans and waste precious resources…
Re:Ask HN: What's Rabbit R1 business model?
by davitocan on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:06PM
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Arguably there's an energy cost to running that software as well that's wasted. Plus potential waste on cloud providers adding hardware to support it all.
In software we see a lot of these “re-imaginings” come and go, see Arc browser, new cloud databases and myriad other things rolling the dice and hoping that they can disrupt and monetize later.
I think this is rarer in hardware because
a. It is harder, requires more planning, inventory management, higher standards and budget
b. Higher barrier to entry means not a lot of small players taking risks. I suppose it takes a technological shift like AI or spatial computing to re-imagine hardware interaction as well.
The saddest part is, when software companies come and go all that is wasted is some VC money and Twitter rants. With hardware, we’re making more junk to fill up oceans and waste precious resources…