I was shocked when I couldn’t switch back to Google Assistant today. I had tried out gemini for months a while back, and it does not control my phone well. I don’t need advanced AI to remind me to move the laundry in two hours or remind me of my mother’s birthday each year. Or to queue up a specific song on spotify. Also, advanced AI is cumbersome at those things. It’s a real bummer.

I’m assuming this is a way to artificially inflate user numbers to shareholders.

This sucks.

  • KanadrAllegria@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I liked when I could say"hey Google, open Libby app" while driving, and it would open my audio book, or “hey Google, play ______ on Spotify” and it would automatically do it. Gemini seems to always want to search the web instead of actually opening the apps, which is annoying, but I refuse to use it so no major loss for me, I guess.

    All that to say, I agree.

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Weird I use it to play things on YouTube music all the time and it works fine, maybe there’s a setting or something you need to change?

      • KanadrAllegria@lemmy.caEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        I no longer have a Google device, and although my current one does run on android, it’s a more basic/less capable version. Also now I use stingray music instead of Spotify, which hasn’t seemed to integrate well into the assistant… So That could be most of my problem, if I’m being honest. But on the other hand I kinda stopped trying to make it work, so maybe it’s better now and I just don’t know!