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Google is butchering Assistant in the name of quality (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 10 months ago by askat to c/android

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Google has announced that it will focus on quality and reliability for its voice assistant, Google Assistant, by removing almost 20 features starting January 26.
The features being removed include controlling audiobooks, setting media alarms, managing stopwatches, and sending emails. Google suggests alternative methods for these tasks.
The company is also changing how users can access Assistant on their phones, with the microphone button in the Google search bar starting a search instead of pulling up Assistant.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Google product 101:

make something good or with potential
leave it there for a while
make it shittier for some reason
pull the plug on it just because

And sometimes launch another product with similar capabilities arises and either takes over or just dies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're planning on completely remodelling it as an LLM powered assistant?

[–] askat 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe we will see android version of Google's Bard ai