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Re: Googlebook

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Post by coffe2mug »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #416
spiralcoaster wrote: post #280

What's funny is that these days if I see a Google product that I'm even remotely interested in, I just immediately write it off because I know it's something they will kill in a very short time frame. It's just never worth the hassle of buying/using a Google product. Never.

They'll be killing off Android any day now.

You can only dream. Even if they do it - there are billion devices that will hope google will build a new one.

And majority of the world like it.

If you want to share room with RMS and hope for GNU Hurd - do it.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by utopiah »

spiralcoaster wrote: post #280

What's funny is that these days if I see a Google product that I'm even remotely interested in, I just immediately write it off because I know it's something they will kill in a very short time frame. It's just never worth the hassle of buying/using a Google product. Never.

Agreed, yet I have a Pixel 8 (2nd hand) right now. The hope is that I don't care about their support anyway, it's just about GrapheneOS.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by razorbeamz »

selectodude wrote: post #387
Jzush wrote: post #305

Gross. This is just more proof that corporations simply don't know how to market AI. Everything is an ad for an ad at this point. The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. No one is doing that, these people don't exist. No matter how hard corporate America wishes they did. This is why AI doesn't sell. This is why companies like Microsoft and Dell are pulling ba…

My wife got upset with me when I dns-blocked all the ads. It sounds totally insane but we’re the minority here. That’s why Google is a $4.5 trillion company.

My wife also got upset with me over this.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by bilalq »

The Gemini features would be so cool if they ran locally, but as-is, this reads like a laptop running spyware to me.

The Android app casting does sound amazing though and that alone would make a full on Linux machine with MBP level build quality compelling.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by utopiah »

achow wrote: post #27

Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... [Edit] And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog.. https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

Damn... ~1min in he verbally asks to put the 2 ingredients on the list.

Like... my dude that's way even slower than drag&drop the text on a light right next to it!

Same later on about changing the calendar appointment from whatever to 8pm... he is behind a desktop with a mouse, just input the number or click on the arrows to adjust.

I bet some people will mention that those are "just" simple to understand examples or that it's great for accessibility ... but it's not. It's not reliable enough for complex cases and not reliable enough for accessibility. So... yes JUST basic examples that are slower than other means.

PS: I did prototypes using voice and pointing in XR and yes that paradigm IS powerful, it's just being multimodal.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by entropie »

jeroenhd wrote: post #291
spiralcoaster wrote: post #280

What's funny is that these days if I see a Google product that I'm even remotely interested in, I just immediately write it off because I know it's something they will kill in a very short time frame. It's just never worth the hassle of buying/using a Google product. Never.

Their hardware is usually fine when it comes to support. Google announces the support lifetime of their devices and sticks to it, with feature updates coming to things like phones even after the support period ended through things like app stores. Just check the support lifetime of the device before buying (early Pixels only had 2 years of support, as was announced at release). Their cloud services are nothing but ho…

> Their hardware is usually fine when it comes to support.

Pixel stands were horrible. And discontinued.

Re: Googlebook

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Post by sgt »

garethsprice wrote: post #272
Raed667 wrote: post #70

Off topic i know but, who goes from SF to Tokyo for a 6 day "vintage shopping trip" ? Who do they think their audience is here?

Another perspective from the posters saying "rich people"; in most advertising, it is aimed at aspiration and not reality - so "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or social media influencers", which tracks for a low-end laptop for a younger phone-native audience. Advertising aimed at the actually rich is usually more about saving time, "elevated" experiences, or building legacy.

> "people who want to be rich leisure class people, or social media influencers"

And about 0.5% of this target group want anything to do with Android [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rules-gen-z-nearly-90-...

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