It definitely seems to have gotten worse. I have all of my Google Home devices sitting unused now. I ended up switching to the Amazon Echo for smart home purposes. The mics work much better and I haven’t had to repeat myself since.
People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn’t pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.
Google’s products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.
You’d think with the release of the pixel tablet they’d be really trying to make the assistant as good as it can be, since home control is one of the biggest selling points of that device.
Amazon is making over Alexa the same way Google is doing to Assistant.
This probably means a new lease on life for all of these types of products. Version 1.0 didn’t make money, but generative AI is the new hotness, so they’re getting a whole new chance to prove themselves.
It definitely seems to have gotten worse. I have all of my Google Home devices sitting unused now. I ended up switching to the Amazon Echo for smart home purposes. The mics work much better and I haven’t had to repeat myself since.
It is unclear how long Amazon will continue to support their assistant in the future. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn’t pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.
Google’s products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.
You’d think with the release of the pixel tablet they’d be really trying to make the assistant as good as it can be, since home control is one of the biggest selling points of that device.
Yeah, but then home control from a tablet was really a bad use case.
Amazon is making over Alexa the same way Google is doing to Assistant.
This probably means a new lease on life for all of these types of products. Version 1.0 didn’t make money, but generative AI is the new hotness, so they’re getting a whole new chance to prove themselves.
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/amazon-alexa-ai-home