• ijeff@lemdro.idOPM
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    1 year ago

    It definitely seems to have gotten worse. I have all of my Google Home devices sitting unused now. I ended up switching to the Amazon Echo for smart home purposes. The mics work much better and I haven’t had to repeat myself since.

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      1 year ago

      It is unclear how long Amazon will continue to support their assistant in the future. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

      People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn’t pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.

      Google’s products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.

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        1 year ago

        You’d think with the release of the pixel tablet they’d be really trying to make the assistant as good as it can be, since home control is one of the biggest selling points of that device.