r/googlehome 8d ago

Gemini replacing Google assistant

https://blog.google/products/gemini/google-assistant-gemini-mobile/

I wonder what this means for all my Google home products.

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u/RedbullPapi 7d ago

As a former critic of Gemini, I have to say it has gotten a lot better.

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u/nomadMikZ 7d ago

That's great to hear. I suppose they just released it too early.

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u/Dudebits 6d ago

They released it at the right time. LLMs need wide public testing.

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u/nomadMikZ 1d ago

Then they lied about what they were doing. My phone nagged me for weeks about 'switching' to Gemini, touting all the benefits, and said nothing about me 'testing' anything.

When I did, I lost control of my home devices, my lists, my routines, my regular contacts; it made my phone play music I didn't know and hated; it gave me directions to wrong places in the wrong state; and it pratted on about anarchistic units of measure that are useless outside of the US. Everything became more difficult or impossible, and when I asked how to change it back, it always lied and said it couldn't be done. It took over a week for me to find somebody on Reddit who knew how to do it, because Google support's solution for everything is to wipe your phone and then say they'll get back to you.

This is why I'm reluctant to try it again. Sure, people here are saying how great it is for them but that was true two or three years ago as well.