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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 9 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] askat 2 points 9 months ago

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