Google Assistant was once the standard to measure against, but it continues to crumble in the "Gemini" era.
  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Googles approach to smart stuff is so weird and backwards.

    Google Now was truly impressive. It genuinely saved time, and it’s smartness could easily wow people.

    Assistant is already a massive step backwards from that, but compared to both Siri and in particular Alexa at least understands you better and can control most smart home stuff.

    And now Gemini shows that the only use case Google seems to be aware of is people doing searches via voice input. As if that is what people used Now/Assistant for…

  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    About the only thing I still use it for is setting timers and asking it what time it is. It’s useless at everything else.

    • isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      My Nest just forgets about timers about 20% of the time. This is me, daily.

      • “Set a 10 minute timer”
      • “OK, 10 minute timer starting now”
      • “How much time is left?”
      • “It doesn’t look like you have any timers”