Why even bother having it at all anymore. Can’t use it through Bluetooth, it’s slow, can’t hardly handle any tasks…
Google has completely lost the plot with their services.
That reminds me, I should really check out Graphene OS…
Do it, boi. One of us. One of us.
Yes you should – but definitely make sure you know what you’re giving up (or freeing yourself from as the case may be) before diving in.
Google Wallet is probably the biggest deal breaker for most.
Yeah, Google Wallet and my banking app. Secondarily, access to my work emails and Slack. I’m on the move so much during the day, my laptop rarely leaves my backpack sometimes.
Schwab app works for me on Graphene and that’s my main bank/stocks app. I’ve found I don’t really need all my credit card apps or my other bank app. I check once a day if that and just keep a bookmark. It hasn’t been bad at all.
They always make services worse before they end them. Maybe instead of incorporating ai they will release a new, not compatible with existing hardware, assistant and they are moving teams around.
It’s that they’re pulling resources away from assistant and preparing to launch Bard in its place.
How google of them
They heard OpenAi wanted to replace Google assistant and instead of fixing the problems decided to kill it. Typical Google.
Surely this is not related to recent major layoff in Google Assistant division, right?
never forget
Oh don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll be back behind a paywall soon enough.
Imagine still using google services in 2024
If I understand this correctly in my use case Assistant will get worse in my car with a aftermarket head unit. The mic isn’t that great on the radio and I’ve had better luck using the handset mic instead.
An aftermarket head unit usually has an external microphone jack in the wiring harness where you can plug an extra microphone and place it somewhere near the driver (e.g. behind the steering wheel). Just buy a small microphone to upgrade the recording quality.
Another silent change in the latest update, at least on my phone, is that the assistant disregards media volume levels and screams its feedback on full volume. It wasn’t like this until a week ago. Restarting, playing with settings, adjusting the volume as she screams, nothing helps.
So if I ask her to do something late at night she goes, “OKAY I WILL DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU ASKED ME TO DO AND WILL ANNOUNCE IT TO THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE PROCESS”
“OKAY, BUYING MORE PREPARATION H”
Looks like they’re removing the toggle making it always enabled, probably because nobody used the phone mic while connected via Bluetooth
In honesty, many of the changes announced seem to remove redundancies