Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse
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Amazon Alexa has followed the same trajectory.
As has Siri.
It used to have all kinds of plugins, like Wolfram|Alpha, that let you do fun and silly things with it.
It's simply gone downhill ever since.
The new Apple intelligence siri is arguably even worse. I tried asking it what the date would be next Tuesday, all I got back was "I don't understand".
Unintelligent Siri managed to crack that one without fault.
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My rule for home automation is that it has to work in a low-tech way. I get Zigbee switches for certain things, but they work as just a light switch if everything is down. This is not true of Phillips Hue bulbs.
My hue bulbs work like normal ass light bulbs if the internet is out. They just default back to standard white bulbs if turned on.
Not sure what your on about.
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I used to support the Home team. I saw them grow from nothing when I worked there. It’s pathetic what they are doing to everything.
It was never going to succeed because it doesn't bring Google money.
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Its about generating investor buzzwords and killing off beloved apps every 3-6 months.
As I understand it, Google mostly ships new stuff that they let die because it's one of the only ways to get a promotion at Google - to ship a product.
Once shipped, the newly promoted staff moves on to something else, and the business people take a look and see if the product actually makes any sense from a financial perspective, which is rarely the case.
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Give me a good non-cloud voice control system that works and I'll switch in a second. And on another note: The "Hey Google" command is so fucking annoying.
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It can't even properly schedule reminders anymore, the one fucking thing I used to for.
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If you really do swear them off, you will have dodged the next many bullets. They have made a solid pattern of killing off things we want. Generally, things we want don't make them enough money.
Killed by Google
Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.
Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com)
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George Orwell was wrong. We didn't need the government to bug our houses, we did it ourselves.
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I don't use Google Wiretap, but I use google assistant on my watch to control the smarthome, and I would be very, very disappointed if it was dead
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It was never going to succeed because it doesn't bring Google money.
And we can't have a good commercial alternative because google bought them up and destroyed them for competing.
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so glad i use google home as a sirius speaker and speaking to it is the only way i can control it /s
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As I understand it, Google mostly ships new stuff that they let die because it's one of the only ways to get a promotion at Google - to ship a product.
Once shipped, the newly promoted staff moves on to something else, and the business people take a look and see if the product actually makes any sense from a financial perspective, which is rarely the case.
I work at a place that needs completed projects to go up in levels/seniority but the problem is nothing gets completed. Ive been there for 2 years working on a very similar project I've completed with 5 other companies and it's yet to be finished. This type of project has always taken 3 months but here we are....
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In all fairness, in the early days of Google Assistant it really was useful. It actually worked. Somehow in the last 5 years it plummeted. As in it stunningly and noticeably kept getting worse year after year.
I still miss Google Now
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George Orwell was wrong. We didn't need the government to bug our houses, we did it ourselves.
️Whatchu mean we?
I got dumb troglodyte everything.
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If you really do swear them off, you will have dodged the next many bullets. They have made a solid pattern of killing off things we want. Generally, things we want don't make them enough money.
How tf are they still convincing users to join, or try new products is the real question.
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My understanding is the software is the problem, I don't understand why though.
Because software is hard to write and not many people want to spend their free time writing it???
Instead of complaining, Go be the change you want. It's all open source...
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what happened
Enshittification, LLM's
Nah that's a recent thing. Google assistant has been going downhill for ages long before this recent obsession with LLMs
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I don't use Google Wiretap, but I use google assistant on my watch to control the smarthome, and I would be very, very disappointed if it was dead
Wearing Google wiretap instead of putting it in your home isn't much better. Honestly it's probably worse.
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Nah that's a recent thing. Google assistant has been going downhill for ages long before this recent obsession with LLMs
Same with search! In the mid 2010's they removed a lot of the advanced search operators. Enshittification.
It turns out having too much control over what you find makes you spend less time looking (at ads).
Then they jammed in llm shit, for reasobs both simple and cynical and reasons convoluted stupid abd cynical.
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Wearing Google wiretap instead of putting it in your home isn't much better. Honestly it's probably worse.
It is because it doesn't listen to me constantly. You need to open the app and press the button.
I mean, you can let it listen, I just don't.
