I made a track for an audiovisual artwork.
Asked AI to create me all the individual elements to make the music.
- bassline, keys, drum sounds, vocals etc
Then I composed a track in live with all the jigsaw pieces.
I like the push to talk idea and the overall design, and I think certainly for older less tech savvy demographics much more needs to be done to lower technical barriers, and for disabled/impaired people too, but ideally I think such a solution would need to be an all in one device.
As most of us know back in the early days of computing, users operated ādumbā terminals, with all the actual computing being done on a large central behemoth. I think I could see a new version of that idea where handheld devices, be they āsmartphonesā or under some other name would be analogous to dumb terminals - in that really they are little more than an interface and authentication device, with a minimal operating system, that from the users perspective never changes much, is simple to use and all the application and system side is handled remotely. So in essence users would have some small, easy to use, single device which does all of the comms, financial, productivity, recreation etc etc depending on which particular services are subscribed to. The interface would be much simpler to use and as far as possible standardised in terms of operation. Maybe that is a unrealistic idea though.
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I just cant see the point of this at all in hardware, I will have my phone with me anyway- this adds nothing as far as I can see.
think ill get one for my mum and dad, they never grew up with computers and although they do have smart phones they never use it other than calls youtube and skype.
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Not available in my country 
They ship only to some EU countries. For the same reason i also couldnāt get the TE designed Playdate!
It looks like itās got a stereo microphone on the top side. Thatās kinda hilarious, considering that all their other products aimed specifically at musicians only have mono mics. Thereās always at least one aspect of every product TE launches that absolutely baffles me 
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Iām a big fan of AI and its potential uses, but I canāt for the life of me wrap my head around why somebody would need a smartphone for their smartphone. Iām holding off on these AI gadgets until I see what Apple is cooking up natively for their iPhones. I much prefer the idea of having ādumbā AI operating locally on my device than hooking everything up to the cloud.
A separate device to your phone might be interesting as at least you are only being spied on by one vendor, rather than your phone OS and all your other apps
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I use it to generate my teletype (monome) script, as iām lazy to learn. Works nice.
Never use my teletype before this.
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I like it. Itās like what you might have thought a pocket computer would do if you had never seen a smartphone.
Just tell it what you want and it does it. No ads, no dark patterns, no way for the algorithm to keep feeding you more Instagram junk. Itās perfect for people who need to use a phone to get stuff done, but donāt like the hassle of doing it.
Plus, no more getting distracted by your WhatsApp threads when you just wanted to check the time of that appointment.
I think this kind of thing could be a genuine alternative to the iOS/Android app-based paradigm.
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Why does it sound like theyāre launching that little device from Spike Jonzeās Her?
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Fair points.
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Iām really interested in this new Rabbit r1. Itās the immediacy thatās enticing. Just get right to the point of what youāre asking. Sure it could be an app, but I for one am stuck on computers and my iPhone all day for work. I like the idea of taking a break, but still having access to some sort of scaled down tech.
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EP-TX-0ā¦ is this for real? 
Just saw this on the op forum. TE pretty exclusively use just a single font so one look at the font in the video and itās pretty clear that itās a lazy fake.
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Same guy did a tx-1 video a year ago. Strange. But also has a ton of videos about real TE gear. Very strange.
I really donāt want another device to be carrying around.
The only items I have on my person at all times are my phone and my glasses.
When someone cracks decent HUD glasses with the kind of tech integration that Rabbit is offering, Iām there in a heartbeat!
Even faster there if itās TE designed glasses 
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The POM series seems to have had another price reduction.
POM-16 590 SEK
POM-170 2600 SEK
POM-400 2900 SEK
Dont know how it translates to Euro, But as it stands those are insane prices, especially the POM-16 which is probably the most affordable Euro sequencer on the market now (which also sports midi out)
It also makes me wonder, if they are trying to phase out these products?
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I am in the US and POM 16 has been showing Sold Out for at least a couple months.
Euro prices are exactly divided by 10.
59ā¬ for POM 16
260ā¬ for POM 170
290ā¬ for POM 400
Thomann has only listed the 400 for 290ā¬ further strengthening your āfinal saleā theory.