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The purpose of the Light Phone is to detach oneself from the unnecessary, time-consuming features of smartphones. There are approaches to this that are simply apps, and they are popular, but there is a genuine benefit to the approach a Light Phone takes which uses separate hardware to completely wall the user off, which app implementations can't do. And the standard phone manufacturers won't make the Light Phone obsolete by incorporating that feature, because it directly contradicts their business models.

With the R1, the point is to have an LLM powered AI assistant. Absolutely nothing about the product is enhanced by doing it as a separate device rather than an application. The design is eye catching, but comes at the price of several hundred dollars and requires you to carry two devices around. The second Apple or Google implements this functionality on their phones, this thing is dead. And I guarantee you they are working on this as we speak, and it will be available within 1-2 years natively on iPhones/Android.