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Google has replaced the Google Assistant app on Android with Gemini by default (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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This means:

Downloading or updating the Assistant app now gives you Gemini instead.
You can switch back to Assistant in the Gemini app settings.
This might be Google's first step towards replacing Assistant completely with Gemini.
Some users are unaware of the switch and see two Gemini apps on their phones.

Overall, this may suggest Google is phasing out Assistant and transitioning users to the newer Gemini AI technology.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sorry,I realized now I didn't mention what I reinstalled and it's still Graphene,but with no Google services framework installed. Pure stock Graphene with only their apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice! But can you pay wirelessly with your banking app?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can. They have their own payment app.

[–] Bloodyhog 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, does it mean that you can use NFC payments with your card anywhere, as it is with G pay/wallet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It does. It's not without flaws,but 80% of the time it works fine (it has a bug where it loses configured card when switching between multi users - so that's painful,but it's a tinfoil level choice on my part).

Most banks provide their own payment apps to use with NFC payments,but I agree Google Pay is by far better and works perfectly out of the box. But it's google. Next ad would be related to some of your purchase history,so your data is shamelessly farmed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Want a tid bit of irony? I use Google rewards that asks me little surveys based on all the Google tracking of me bullshit and you get little bits of Google play store credit in return.

I use that playstore credit to buy my Windscribe VPN service every year that's $30. So I use the money Google gives me to buy the service to hide away some of the stuff that Google wants of me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's some profitable irony right there. I don't disagree with people using stuff the way the want to,but I do prefer choice. Luckily for me I live in EU ,so privacy and choice is more or less still a thing, allegedly.

If that works for you,great. It's a good tip for others as well. I do spend around 70€/2 years of PIA,but I think that's reasonable.