you know what would also be great:
less content-generated spam (top 10 ways to feel happy... blah bla)
stop allowing sites to fool the 'sort by date feature' by changing the dates of old articles to new ones
Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
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Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#12I know this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm getting tired of having everything good replaced by a mediocre version that offers debatable convenience. A meh guitar tuner, a phone tree that usually understands my spoken choices, the opportunity to enter my claim information online and be questioned by an impersonal overseas operator later instead of just talking with my agent — none of these are developments that improv…
Where I work is all in on Google cloud and the "meh but convenient" factor of GCP services is starting to really grate on me. "X 3rd party service has great reviews and is cheaper" suddenly becomes contestable and a debate because we'd have to deal with a bit of additional complexity and pay for data transfer out of GCP.
That’s the problem with tech giants. They tie you into a mediocre environment that makes it easy to use mediocre products . My company is using MS Teams because it comes with Office. But when you start to use it you quickly realize how bad it is.
We would be much better off if we had more small tech companies instead of giants like Apple, MS and Google.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#13I know this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm getting tired of having everything good replaced by a mediocre version that offers debatable convenience. A meh guitar tuner, a phone tree that usually understands my spoken choices, the opportunity to enter my claim information online and be questioned by an impersonal overseas operator later instead of just talking with my agent — none of these are developments that improv…
I imagine this is just some Google engineer's 20% project, and that they are really enthusiastic about guitars. Also I can see this being useful in many cases, in case my battery was flat and I had to borrow someone's phone to tune up. I don't think that musicians will stop buying tuner apps because Google has one, a good tuner app is indispensable.
I don’t think there’s anything about it that’s specific to guitars.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is merely a result of the democratization of basic services- now everybody can receive the same level of mediocrity.
Like Andy Warhol put it: > What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the c…
And then Coke begat New Coke which begat “Old” Coke which was actually a new drink based on corn syrup instead of cane sugar and then people started importing cane sugar Coke from Mexico because they don’t have insane corn subsidies that make corn syrup stupid cheap compared to sugar and now, yeah, there is a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.
Unless he, too, chose to spend like a buck thirty for a 12oz bottle of the Good Stuff at a store that has it instead of two bucks for a 20oz bottle of the corn syrup.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#15Okay I'm pretty impressed. It registers my double bass, both plucked and bowed. A lot of Android tuners struggle with the bass.
Of course I just granted Chrome access to my microphone. I'll be turning that back off, thanks.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#16Pretty soon Google will be mowing my lawn but still won't serve me RSS.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#17I know this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm getting tired of having everything good replaced by a mediocre version that offers debatable convenience. A meh guitar tuner, a phone tree that usually understands my spoken choices, the opportunity to enter my claim information online and be questioned by an impersonal overseas operator later instead of just talking with my agent — none of these are developments that improv…
That's disruption, in the sense intended by Clayton M. Christensen. Walmart was never going to provide a better service than Whole Foods (or some equivalent-to-WF store that predates Walmart, since I'm sure there are some). But it might provide a service that's 80% as good, at 20% of the price. And if it does, you might buy it. Are you under the impression that it's no longer possible to install a dedicated guitar-tu…
OK but, is Google really trying to disrupt the guitar tuner market?
This isn't them trying to disrupt an incumbent. It's a neat hack from a company with more money than they know what to do with.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#18I know this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm getting tired of having everything good replaced by a mediocre version that offers debatable convenience. A meh guitar tuner, a phone tree that usually understands my spoken choices, the opportunity to enter my claim information online and be questioned by an impersonal overseas operator later instead of just talking with my agent — none of these are developments that improv…
That's disruption, in the sense intended by Clayton M. Christensen. Walmart was never going to provide a better service than Whole Foods (or some equivalent-to-WF store that predates Walmart, since I'm sure there are some). But it might provide a service that's 80% as good, at 20% of the price. And if it does, you might buy it. Are you under the impression that it's no longer possible to install a dedicated guitar-tu…
If you look for a tuner app in the Android app store, there are like thousands of choices. Most of them are adware, or they don't register my double bass very well. I would have no idea where to begin looking for an app that is better in some way, or that even works. That market has pretty much disrupted itself.
Fortunately I learned to tune by ear, so a tuner app is really a first world problem.
Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#19Isn't this another blatant case of Google abusing its position of being the gate-keeper of internet and pushing its feature above the websites that exists with the same feature for years? Same as it has been doing for things like online calculators, weather sites, currency conversions and so on.
Worse is that they don't have to really play by the rules of SEO. Any other website with tuners or weather forecasts have to fill their content with keyword crap to get noticed even if they may not really add any value to end-user. But hey, Google can push it's nice little hobby feature to the top and bankrupt other legit websites. How is this legal?
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Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine this is just some Google engineer's 20% project, and that they are really enthusiastic about guitars. Also I can see this being useful in many cases, in case my battery was flat and I had to borrow someone's phone to tune up. I don't think that musicians will stop buying tuner apps because Google has one, a good tuner app is indispensable.
They may also get some interesting data about microphone distortions across devices and browsers.
I look forward to receiving personalized ads for books on how to improve my intonation. ;-)