I don’t know how they can possibly make money with this but i’m looking forward to having a new toy on my desk and I really like the teenage engineering vibes of it.
Definitely not hooking it up to Spotify or any personal accounts after hearing how they handle security.
I want more companies to try hardware!
To quote the title,
> a thing that should just be an app, is just an Android app
Except the company doesn't own the hardware for distribution by being an Android app! People want developers to be subservient and taxed forever, as if Google and Apple own all of non-desktop computing. It's an unfortunate place we've arrived at.
We need many more hardware options. The cellphone duopoly is harming and taxing innovation.
My point being, they’re already releasing an Android device with cellular. Why not make it a bespoke Android phone and/or partner with someone like One Plus to be a differentiator?
The number of people who’d carry two devices around is vanishingly small when the use cases all can happen on their phone anyway.
”Android lets you choose which digital assistant app to use. Settings > Apps > Default apps > Digital assistant app. Stock Android will have this preconfigured to Google Assistant, but it's designed to be swappable.”
From the first looks of it those will just end up in the drawers or landfill in no time which is a little sad.