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Google Forcing Gemini Down Our Throats Feels aLot Like Microsoft and Internet Explorer, But More Insidious (slate.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

[–] dantheclamman 3 points 5 hours ago

Or I ask to go to Costco, and where Assistant previously would route me to the nearest one, Gemini sends me to one 80 miles away

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I love the dedicated piracy folder lmao

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

This is probably the most 'old man yells at cloud' thing about me but I hate voice assistants and they have yet to work consistently enough to be worth my time.

It is completely insane to me that something simple like "Add ____ to the grocery list" has worked and stopped working nonstop for years now. How hard is that to get right? Cannot believe such a simple action is so inconsistent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

My Google smart speaker used to integrate with my shopping list app. The loss of that integration and other features makes it basically a glorified white noise machine now.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

I think a lot of that has to do with that Google used to be a company with engineers wanting to make the best software.

Now it's an ad agency that happens to have some software to make money, and they don't care about the software anymore. Money is not only bottom line, it's all the lines. You see the results in the quality of their software, it's all gone down hill.

[–] FireWire400 22 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That's my biggest gripe with Gemini; it's not a proper replacement for Google Assistant and yet it's still treated as such.

Feels like Google took at least two steps back when it comes to Gemini on Pixel devices...