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Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer (bgr.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] danielfgom 60 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I agree. It's time Sundar hits retirement and they put someone more visionary at the top.

Google has become seriously stale.

I was just remembering how back in 2010 on my iPhone 4S I could receive a text message while driving and tell Siri to read it to me, with no internet connection. And it would, and I could reply by Siri as well

But my current Android phone (I love Android it's really great overall) cannot do that if I don't have an internet connection!

Why??? Why haven't they baked certain basic offline capabilities into Assistant and only need internet for search queries? Makes no sense but it's one of those small indicators that Sundar is not paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because they use every reason to bring you online asap. Only then they can get as much data as they want. For example your location, no matter if via GPS or nearby Wifis.

[–] mods_are_assholes 15 points 7 months ago

This is consumer abuse for profit and should be regulated, but our country is run by oligarchs that pay the politicians so this is never happening.

[–] RGB3x3 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And I swear to god, when they released the pixel 6, they said Assistant could do things much faster and without an Internet connection because all the processing for certain tasks (like language recognition, timers and sending messages) was all done on-board.

What the hell happened to that? Assistant has felt slower than ever for everything and more unhelpful every day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I can offer some insight. A friend of mine recently switched to the new one plus and he's finding all sorts of little things he misses from his pixel 6 pro. The background music discovery was one, as was the camera processing stuff.