Rabbit, Humane, and the iPad | The Vergecast

[@tayjn]

Summer vacation idea: book plane tickets based on where the Rabbit R1 weather thinks you're located

[@jonasking3670]

Welcome to Budapest!

[@thedavidj1996]

@@jonasking3670”the weather in Pyongyang is..”

[@rintintin_]

"Hammered in Budapest" would have been a great episode name 😂😂

[@CR-xx3ur]

honestly the "why'd you push that button" series could come back as an in depth dive into apple monetizing every button push on the iPhone

[@neight123]

This podcast makes me happy. It's fun, lighthearted, and positive. Such a nice diversion from all the typical doom and gloom news and podcasts.

[@sullivan4052]

alex starting to state a point, getting distracted by the rabbit's hardware, and forgetting what her point was was very relatable

[@Izual739]

I agree, I LOVED that flippy clock widget!

[@Spoonyspoon27]

“Magic until it isn’t “ 7/10 Nilay Patel 😂

[@Lord_Reset]

A VERY different 7/10 than my mind jumped to

[@mcraig]

Am I going crazy or is all this headphone talk just ignoring that the basics of this already exist in every pair of headphones supporting Siri or Assistant? Like literally short of a little camera lapel that does nothing but wait for a BT LTE take picture command, the feature set already exists and just needs to go via a phone. I'm never going to completely leave my phone behind, but if you can just leave your phone in your pocket, you've basically done what you're after. Even the tests in reviews of asking for info on a place, i just have to say the name of it rather than saying "look at this" - this isn't a particularly big jump...

[@SamuelLudden]

I, too am happy with the earbuds solution.

[@francisyuweh706]

great, fun episode guys! keep it up!

[@Hjones565]

I don't know why the apple campus isn't called Cook's cauldron

[@paritosh7947]

Alex, thank you for teaching me the word "Loquacious". Also, Nilay definitely missed an opportunity for "Fly, you fools!"

[@VariTimo]

Really enjoying these now.

[@frizzyacademic]

Stage manager with window snapping is what I think the iPadOS could benefit from. I use stage manager and my default is apps full screen, no permanent dock or recent windows on the left. It’s a quite pain to setup multiple windows every time I want to. Seeing macOS doesn’t have window snapping, I’m not very optimistic.

[@ShoFuturistic]

why is the iPad mini never mentioned in these discussions?

[@zedrake]

I'm at 1:07:00 and whyyyy am I not hearing how they're going to release like 4 new pencils in new colours.. Dat innovation though

[@migzcuad]

they're gonna go hard on local LLM processing! just throwing this out there

[@migzcuad]

also local generative AI based on your own photos? or deepfakes lol

[@moramento22]

David is so much a 10!

[@jonahhammond2438]

20:29 a smartwatch?

[@Pandoso01]

1:10:58 they also have one with a keyboard... sure the second screen is cool, just take her word right here as the tldr: the one with the keyboard makes more sense, the second screen is cool tho 1:14:47 they will never know this (boomers) but discord added the same some time ago, im guessing its popular enough so google heard of it and decided they needed to have it too. its the only reasoning of that existing lol (im going to guess that some other calling app, mb wechat or something had it first too)

[@jarrodjob]

49:17 - “What’s up, losers?” Eddy Cue - David Pierce - 😂 💀

[@jarrodjob]

David paid $200 for a 3. 🤝

[@nocturnus009]

It is possible 05:40 David’s Rabbit R1 thinks it should be giving the weather for Elena Taber? 🇺🇸🇹🇷🇫🇷

[@kuakilyissombroguwi]

Can you guys please address the fact that the CEO ran an NFT scam right before starting Rabbit in a future episode? Last May they promised to deliver a "Quantum Engine" through this NFT company and that quickly pivoted into a supposed operating system, which eventually turned into "Rabbit OS". This needs to be a bigger piece of news imo.

[@Stargate2077]

The answer of why these AI devices are shipping now is because high interest rates are killing these startups that were dependent on cheap money that doesn’t exist anymore.

[@black-n-gold]

53:54 to Alex’s point, I remember an Ashley Carmen piece (or video?) a long time ago where she made this explicit point. I don’t remember which one exactly though…

[@TimothyEspinosa]

Isn’t the Apple Watch and other such devices a better option?

[@nickthaskater]

mac OS on iPad is the only update that matters at this point. It can be optional. Just let it happen.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

I’m always excited for iPad news

[@balloonredd]

Perfect timing

[@ryx007]

Whoa, first view! Hi Vergecast cast!

[@aditya_on_youtube]

Rabbit R1 gets the time and weather wrong because it relies completely on perplexity AI which also can't tell you the time or weather (I just tried).

[@NoloMabetoa]

I love innovation as musch as the next ttech junkie but i think the takeaway from the AI gadget category is that this product category does not need to exist

[@SuperShellsta]

Hay. Horse person here.

[@malcolmw513]

Hanlon's Razor.

[@seste87]

The only iPad that fits in its own product category is the iPad mini. There, I said it.

[@kohlmannj]

Alex’s Law!!! Lmaooo

[@brandonreed09]

Google being the default search engine on the iPhone isn't just about the data, it's about the buying power of the iPhone community.

[@tstartrekdude]

Paul

[@craigygilmore]

I like books

[@samskyset]

I really wonder if the Rabbit rollout verges on fraudulent...

[@dbransom]

It's all AAA gaming these days.... Flashy demo, release, patch...

[@gtosorios]

That’s true, but even broken AAA games are essentially finished products (story and gameplay are pretty much done even if buggy). These “AI products” are barely passable as proofs of concept.

[@StarChaser1879]

@@gtosorioswhat exactly would it take to be “finished” without changing the core concept?

[@gtosorios]

@@StarChaser1879 Both the Ai Pin and the R1 should be able to do what they promised in their respective introductions (they currently don’t). Personally, I’m not convinced that the core concept makes sense but had they at least delivered what was shown, they’d be “finished”. I think the Apple Watch is a good counter-example. The original had lots of problems, but it did everything that Apple showed it would: it was finished. Software updates made it better over time and discarded some core ideas (such as the Digital Touch thing) while focusing on the aspects people valued most like fitness.

[@gtosorios]

@@StarChaser1879 Both the Ai Pin and the R1 should be able to do what they promised in their respective introductions (they currently don’t). Personally, I’m not convinced that the core idea makes sense, but had they at least delivered what was shown, they’d be “finished”. I think the Apple Watch is a good counter-example: the original had lots of problems, but it did everything that Apple showed it would. Software updates made it better over time and discarded some core ideas (such as the Digital Touch thing) while focusing on the aspects people valued most like fitness and health.

[@WilliamEnclosure]

Yeaaaaaa

[@eaglesboy4949]

Not first :/

[@GGori_99]

You guys are so funny... Everything is Android now ???????? What about your lovely iPhone ????

[@thorbenh81]

This obnoxious laughing the whole time about non-jokes make me to not be able to listen to it anymore. It’s just not genuine.