Personally, I don’t like it as an Assistant replacement: it can’t do routines among other issues.
K. Is my life better yet? Is the ai gonna make the law stop exploiting me? Is it gonna make housing affordable? Is it gonna do anything but eat huge amounts of resources to provide novelty while I’m allowed a room in a noisy duplex for all my efforts?
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.
Gemini? The protocol equivalent to the cyber Amish?
Oh, Google stuff. Meh
Hopefully they can stick with this product and not give up in a year like with all the other dead google projects.
Going to time this one with my head of lettuce…
“Gemini isn’t currently available. Try again later.”
Bummer. :/
