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.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I never will. I loved Google Now. It legitimately felt like the future when it came out. So much more useful than the dumbass article and product sales feed it is now.

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Looks like they’re removing the toggle making it always enabled, probably because nobody used the phone mic while connected via Bluetooth

    • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      In honesty, many of the changes announced seem to remove redundancies

  • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    They want out and haven’t found a way to make money off of voice assistant. They’re just slowly killing it.

    It’s part of why I’m pushing hard on my HA and hoping their voice efforts at least give me a solid voice experience at home.

    HA = Home Assistant

    Edit to say: I get that people are frustrated that previously good (mostly) free solutions are going away. I’m not defending tech, but I do see their business need here. Google has long lost my trust anyhow.

    I’m not upset by the down votes, but 8 do wonder what they mean.

    To me the only safe thing to do is pull back and build my own. Raspberry Pis aren’t expensive.

  • ali@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    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”

    • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • CrackaAssCracka@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          10 months ago

          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.