Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
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Try Curve Pay. Just learned about it yesterday.
I added my credit card and it just works.
Couldn't be happier.I'm always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it's time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there. -
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My experience with Gemini:
Hey Google, set a timer for 5 minutes.
Gemini: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
WTF is the point of it then?
Imagine taking away the only useful feature of a voice assistant
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You can sandbox play store apps right?
Everything is sandboxed but I don't have all the details. You don't actively turn any sandbox on or off, it's always there IIRC.
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Anyone know if this is happening outside the US and if it is whether it's happening inside the EU?
Yeah, this seems like an easy lawsuit in the EU tbh
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Yup, true.
But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.Yeah, all fair points. I do love the convenience of using my phone to pay too in fairness.
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Narrator: And users did not in fact, take action.
It'll just be one more thing for them to complain and do nothing about. That is all.
Most people wont even notice. My non techy friends love their new Pixel phones and all the AI assistance.
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Remember when iPhone was the bad guy amongst these kids? But I guess as long as it has more options, surely it’s better!
What? Apple is the bad guy, Google is the bad guy. They are both bad guys!
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Doesnt Apple also do this with Siri and basically every app unless the user untoggles it?
Except Apple has better marketing, and is primarily marketed for those who're excited for every tech "innovation".
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My experience with Gemini:
Hey Google, set a timer for 5 minutes.
Gemini: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
WTF is the point of it then?
Imagine taking away the only useful feature of a voice assistant
My recent experience with my phone is I tell it to set a 5 minute timer and it sets one in the fucking Google search browser, and if I page away I lose the timer.
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I just removed gemini from my phone.
me too and then it somehow popped up in messages which I had to "turn off" separately. removing AI from an Android phone is an illusion.
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I believe /e/OS supports a broader range of devices, and it's also pretty great in my experience. The focus is on getting rid of google (replacing all services with MicroG and nextcloud integration) and blocking trackers while providing a smooth user experience, so it's security features are not as over the top as Graphene. It's still a huge freaking improvement over stock Android though, and I find it to be a joy to use.
On devices supported by the online installer it can be up an running in like 30 minutes, no technical skills required.
Thanks for highlighting this. I might try it out on my OP7Pro.
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I switched Gemini language to an unsupported language.
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What? Apple is the bad guy, Google is the bad guy. They are both bad guys!
I never said Apple was great, did I?
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I'm not signed into a Google account on my phone, am I safe?
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Yes, for the amount of hate Google gets... Which I think it is fair to be critical of any product that compromises privacy... I recently tried helping my mom clean up her iPhone, and seriously like 100x worse. Almost everything you do on Apple demands you have another Apple device. One of the worst experiences I've ever dealt with.
Isn't there some form of sampling bias here though? The kind of people who generally would care about these things likely also care about interoperability and would be on Android. I wouldn't be surprised if iPhone users simply don't care if Apple demands them to do anything.
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Double negatives are hard. I love Graphene.
I mean, the way I read it is "not a day goes by on which I am not regretting doing this". So, every day you are regretting it
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You can sandbox play store apps right?
Even the play store is sandboxed. Those stupid games covered in ads, no where near as bad when the app never has a network connection or access to any files outside its directory.
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me too and then it somehow popped up in messages which I had to "turn off" separately. removing AI from an Android phone is an illusion.
GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)
Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.
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I never said Apple was great, did I?
You kinda did though. I am unsure what your comment is actually truing to convey. Users only have 2 options of mobile OSs that are average consumer ready.
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I swear, whenever I try to use it, it just makes me wish I could delete it. I ask the answer to a simple question and it gives me a whole essay on how this one aspect of what I said is more nuanced than one would imagine, and I'm left there waiting 5 minutes to get it to say anything of substance, but it doesn't when I explicitly tell it to "just give me the fucking answer", which I have to say every time for it to say anything useful.
It also doesn't work with timers or anything actually useful and I doubt it'll get any better with third party app access.
Google assistant was so much better, it even still works with its servers being down (for me at least) because it's a better assistant than whatever Gemini is supposed to be.
