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Changes we're making to Google Assistant (blog.google)

submitted 1 year ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

We’re removing some underutilized features in Google Assistant to focus on delivering the best possible user experience.

Is this the non sequitur used nowadays to explain removal of features? "We're removing it to give you a better experience"??? That's bloody hilarious.

Be honest at least dammit. If you don't want to maintain a feature, because it's against your best interests, say so. Users are not stupid, and should not be implied to be stupid with this idiotic "it's for you lol" discourse.

(I don't even use Botnet Assistant.)

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair in modern phones there are some features that if removed would make the user experience better. None of these are that though. This is just another case of Google being Google.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. Google consistently gets rid of features or services that it deems unprofitable. And that's fine, really - as long as you don't pretend that you're doing it for the users.

To be fair in modern phones there are some features that if removed would make the user experience better.

I hear ya - for example, the SIM toolkit being able to send you pop-ups (phone providers use that to spam the users).