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Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams
(www.reuters.com)
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And they announced this morning some pretty significant feature rollbacks: https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691?visit_id=638405848924404696-2744922006&p=assistant_is_changing&rd=1
Is it possible to use Duo still? Google knows it discontinued/merged Duo with Google Meet nearly 18 months ago, right?
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I just don't get how all of these "Smart" devices continue to get stupider. Why are they removing existing features or making them worse to use?
It's gotten to the point where I'm currently working on a project to roll my own dumb smart display and speakers with a RPi, Magic Mirror, and a DAC/amp hat.
Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.
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Take a look at home assistant to power the speech part of the display. They have done a lot the last year and even have wake words working.
I'm not going to bother with speech on it as I don't really like talking to my devices. How assistant is definitely in consideration for the screen though if I don't get magic mirror working to my liking.
The commute to work on smart screens going away is a headscratcher. How complicated could it be?
You could never make calls. I remember trying to find my phone by asking Google to call it and it just saying “calling xyz”. Never rang, not while I was using a Google voice number, not on Google Fi, not on T-Mobile/mint.
Also, didn’t see anything about asking the assistant on the living room something and the device in the bedroom answering and vice-versa. Not sure how something so simple could be messed up. We kind of gave up on using it due to that, it isn’t even good enough to Google a question any longer.
Seems like mine magically started working one day for calling. Don't need or want that function though.
Also most wear os phones do not support Google assistant since the new generation