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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I had to switch to Gemini on my phone cause Google assistant kept crashing my entire fucking phone no matter what I tried. Even a full wipe and start over it would just crash it.

The thing is fucking worthless. I use it basically ONLY to turn my lights on/off from bed and to call my mother while driving

90% of the time it doesn't understand what a light is and the other half it just randomly calls someone on my contacts instead of who i said.

Google assistant at least was reliable when it wasn't out right nonfunctioning.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    And Google Assistant was even better once upon a time before Google decided to make it worse to force people over to Gemeni despite it having no functionality more than a subpar chatbot with a search engine. It could not even tell the time out loud and even less set a timer or alarm.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Google Assisstant was good, it had the android auto mostly perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It was at the beginning, but lately it's been hot garbage. I think they've nerfed it on purpose so that the migration to gemini is an easier sell.

    For me, I'm happy it now understands "hey Google, how's my timer?" As equivalent of "how long is left on my timer" and no longer answers that question with "it's seven fifty two pm" 😡

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