Let’s say you teach it a workflow that would like this note, copy the ln adress from the profile and go to a wallet app to send 50 sats to the address. Then you have a workflow doing a micro payment outside of Apple or google’s ecosystem. Plenty of apps were removed from the App Store for micropayments outside the ecosystem.

I do agree that eventually, the functionality of the R1 (with some parts removed) will be integrated in Apple or google assistants. I guess they need to see demand for it first. Something that devices like these can provide.