This means:
- Downloading or updating the Assistant app now gives you Gemini instead.
- You can switch back to Assistant in the Gemini app settings.
- This might be Google’s first step towards replacing Assistant completely with Gemini.
- Some users are unaware of the switch and see two Gemini apps on their phones.
Overall, this may suggest Google is phasing out Assistant and transitioning users to the newer Gemini AI technology.
yay, more nonsense added to stock android (degoogle now)
I need a degoogle wiki to all me through all the things I can do to degoogle and what conveniences I might loose and potential workarounds for them. E.g. I spent a few hours getting rid of chrome, but then found out that if I want to use maps from my home screen, I can’t use the search bar and I need another button on my homescreen. Also, apparently I use the images tab on Google often, and ddg doesn’t have an images filter.
So anyway, without good replacements for my typical workflow, I end up just adding inconvenience and still falling back on the old workflows when I can’t figure out how to get what I need degoogled.
Flash Lineage or DivestOS, then add non-google apps as needed.
Install GApps into a different user profile (pretty sure it’s Lineage that works this way now, may be DivestOS).
OK, that’s not for everyone. Start with the Universal Android Debloat Utility
It’s really good at showing what you can safely disable, and is easy to re-enable stuff if you have problems. I’ve only ever had issues from disabling stuff listed as problematic.
I don’t know of a good list like you’re describing - your chrome issue was likely because you disabled the rendering engine, and not just chrome. Android needs a web rendering engine (the default is chrome), which can be replaced.
Edit: Another commenter linked to this list
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And it still won’t be as useful as Google Now
Your device is not your device. Google’s device, google’s rules!
Nobody’s violating your rights by publishing an update to the software they provide. If you don’t like it android gives you an option to freeze apps at a particular version. You can let go of your pearls now.
Make yourself a favor, delete this crap and instead use a real open source (means apache2) AI that performs even better than chatgpt4 or Google ai. Get Mistral 7B.
Does it work like google assistant?
Gemini doesn’t work like Google assistant.
It doesn’t seem to be able to actually take actions.
Things I used to do with assistant that do not work with Gemini
- play something
- Play “song title”
- Play artist
I don’t know about other things like seeing timers or running routines, I shut off Gemini as soon as I realized it couldn’t handle my most used requests.
I know gemini does not. But what I gathered was to replace assistant with Mistral. Unless I misunderstood the comment.
No i meant instead of Google ai there are better and open source alternative. It’s rare enough to have open source alternative better than a product companies invested hundreds of millions in.
Well yes but the original comment states to uninstall the google stuff and get yourself open source ai. With the post itself being about assistant getting replaced I think it’s not an unreasonable assumption.
I’m confused. There is no assistant app as far as I can tell. It seems to just be part of the OS.
I don’t see a Gemini app either though.
Google assistant “app”: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.googleassistant&hl=en&gl=US
I think once it’s rolled out in your region, the assistant will pester you to switch to Gemini.
There is no Gemini app of any kind for me either.
Interesting. I use it all the time but I don’t have a separate app installed for it.
I think it’s still supposed to come out in the EU, if that’s where you’re at, Google releases launch in the EU with a delay for likely legal reasons
Haha, Google. I already type my dumb questions at DuckDuckGo
Srsly… Gemini is pretty cool tho. When I want an AI at least. (Rarely)
I loved being able to open up Assistant to quickly summarize an article for me, but Gemini requires me to also attach the URL to its context and then type/say “Summarize” and then hit the submit button only to wait longer for the summary.
The only pro I can think about is that I can continue to ask for details about or related to the article.
Lovely, that’s a trick I haven’t tried on Andorid.
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