Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”

  • @Ottomateeverything
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    69 months ago

    This is fucking pathetic. I used to brag to people about how well Google Assistant worked on our Home’s. My wife, who is not into tech in the slightest, would do the same.

    Now it’s gotten to the point where it can’t do fucking jack shit right anymore. It fails to turn off lights. It can’t figure out devices it’s connected to, it can’t get media requests right, it forgets the timers it’s running, etc.

    It’s gone from a mediocre voice command interface, to an insanely impressive Google Now providing info before you think to ask for it, to an incredibly useful assistant that I can’t think of anything it can’t do… To an inferior Siri that trips over itself left and right and can’t respond to basic requests anymore.

    A bunch of the things in the list of things being removed are things I used frequently like 6 years ago - I fucking bought a Home Hub because of the step by step recipes. I’ve stopped using them for the past 3-4 years because the thing can’t even get a fucking timer right so why would I even bother asking it anything more complicated. They’re removing them because “people aren’t using them” but people aren’t using them because Google fucking broke them or they didn’t know they were there.

    Google is a fucking clown show at this point. They can’t get anything right without ram rodding it straight into oblivion and then killing it because no one’s using it.