Personally, I don’t like it as an Assistant replacement: it can’t do routines among other issues.
It seems like in its current state it can’t:
- Access personal productivity things - calendar, reminders etc.
- Can’t run routines
- Can’t detect an end of your voice command
Unless I missed some obvious checkbox somewhere, this seems like a half baked replacement to me.
Google Assistant has been neutered and Gemini is not very useful.
Google just really doesn’t know how to do proper feature/product releases.
I’ve stopped adopting Google products and I think I recommend it for others as well. They limp in with something half-finished, don’t get the adoption a mostly finished product would, then throw up their hands.
Im tryinf to de-cloud all together and expect I can get mostly there within the next 18 months.
If you have patience and a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, I suspect it’s a better and cheaper (and more future proof) solution.
Yeah… It seems to be a management issue. They underinvestment, under communicate, then drop the product when it’s not magically successful because of the brand that launched it.
Stadia is my prime example where they just needed to stand their ground and work on the platform’s software. Hardware wise, they could just resell GPUs people aren’t using in Google cloud.
I personally feel like stadia was a self-fulfilling prophecy. It shut down because people didn’t use it, and they didn’t use it because they were afraid of it shutting down like Google always does with stuff
But Google has earned that rep. And they aren’t saying or doing much to change it.
Minimal vision, weak execution, MVP agile approach with strong emphasis on the "Minimally,* and no heart, soul, grit.
I know they’re a business, but sometimes, I think, if they could just be okay losing money for longer, they’d turn some of the projects into something good.
I really don’t like Zuck, but he’s willing to lose billions a year on things he believes in. Google doesn’t do that (much) now. AI and quantum computing are the only things that spring to mind.
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Gemini Ultra is out now. Gemini Pro has been out for a while, powering Bard. They’ve now ditched the “Bard” name, which I think is a good idea.
“Gemini isn’t currently available. Try again later.”
Bummer. :/
