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Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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Wow that is pretty damning. I hope Google is adding all this stuff in with the replacement of Assistant but it's Google so I guess they won't. I replaced Assistant with Gemini a while back but I only use it for super basic stuff like setting timers so I didn't realise it was this bad.
They did the same shit with Google Now, rolled it into Assistant but it was nowhere near as useful imo. Now we get yet another downgrade switching Assistant with Gemini.
As I like to say, there's nobody Google hates more than the people that love and use their products.
That brief moment in time when we had dirt cheap Nexus phones, Google Now and Inbox was peak Google. Just 5 years later it was all gone.
Such great products. Now we get....image generation, inpainting and a conversational AI. All technically impressive, but those older products were actually functional and solved everyday problems.
I remember using my My Moto X in 2013 and finding Google services actually useful
Yup, Google Now was actually useful and helpful, so of course they had to get rid of it.
When google asked if I wanted to try Gemini I gave it a try and the first time I asked it to navigate home, something I use assistant for almost daily, it said it can't access this feature but we can chat about navigating home instead - fuck that!
Even though I switched back to assistant it's still getting dumber and losing functionality - yesterday is asked it to add something to my grocery list(in keep) and it put it on the wrong list, told me the list I wanted doesn't exist, then asked if I wanted to create the list and then told me it can't create it because it already exists.
I've talk to more logical toddlers!