That doesn't make it a scam though, just a waste of money. A scam would be something like, you order it and what turns up is a photo of the device with a QR code on the back linking to a download for the app.

the line isn't that clear cut. broken promises that create a sale could certainly be construed as 'scammy'.

I don't know too much about this product - did they promise not to run it on Android?

Market isn't an optimization problem. Market can decide what is necessary or isn't. I would pick this up for $200 if the models were running locally.

I think we all would. But realistically no $200 device is going to run models locally.

You can run models on anything if you try

They don’t though. And if they did, it would cost more than $200. Like, say, a phone.