Google Assistant shutting down on Android and Wear OS in September
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This makes android auto voice useless to me. I don't need an Ai arguing with me when im trying to find a coffee shop while driving
now i only have to disable one thing instead of two. it is wild how they went from something i truly used like google now to something i actively avoid.
Then it's finally time to remove the smart speakers from my house. We all know Google only wants to kill assistant off so that Gemini can be listening to us full-time intelligently. I hate this timeline, we need constitutional protections for our privacy.
Then there needed to be a riot in 2025 that exceeded 1/6/2021.
but gemini is no where near feature parity, especially using it for control in android auto or google home. Plus you have to allow all your data be ingested by gemini just to use it. Gross
The second part is why they're doing it, they don't give a shit about the first part.
Do
n'tbe evil.IIRC Assistant killed Google Now.
Google Now and Play Music existed at the same time. We were so optimistic. We were so naive.
Then the ghouls decided that the imaginary numbers weren't rising quickly enough.
It's the ciiircle of liiiife. . .
You either die a hero or you live long enough to be killed by Google
I fucking hate this. Assistant did what it was told, Gemini just gets in the way (when it even properly interprets what I asked for).
Yea, I only used assistant for setting up timers with my voice command while cooking and it worked just fine. A few months ago I somehow activated gemini instead of the assistant and it said "sure, i've setup timer for X minutes" but in reality nothing happened, atleast not in my default clock app.
Also "I can't set reminders yet"
Like what the fuck
I've still yet to ever find an assistant app useful, but I have mine set to Google Assistant instead of Gemini as it seems like the lesser of two evils. Does this mean I'll have to have Gemini active now?
killedbygoogle.com
Any open source assistant apps? Can I just use DeepSeek and z.ai? I would never use gemini
I don't know if it's open source, but home assistant cloud has one