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Kyle Turpin
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I generally expect the new thing to come with at least the same features as the thing it replaces, if not more. That bar isn't high but it wasn't cleared. It lies about setting timers, giving identical voice confirmation as Assistant but without actually setting the timer. It doesn't handle music, search, navigation or home automation integrations as well as Assistant and it's a one-way "upgrade". Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
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Riley Henderson
Worst part is the fact that I can't use it with Spotify. It was cool whe I first started using it, but the main thing I depended on with the Google Assistant is being able to start, stop, skip, and like songs on Spotify. Moving to Gemini caused me to lose all that integration. I know they are slowly starting to add it and when it does, maybe I'll fully switch. For now, I'll stick with the Google Assistant. It can easily do Navigation, Web Query's, and has Spotify Integration.
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Patrick
Gemini is getting better, and it does fine telling you what to text to your friends because you can't be bothered to actually do it yourself. Can it set alarms, though, or look up directions or turn off your lights or play music for you? Absolutely not. And why should it?! It's just a language model! ...except it must replace Assistant as your "AI Assistant". But it's not an Assistant; it's just a language model...and it's not particularly good at that. ...unless you need it to text.
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