Comment on Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant
joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That does explain why they dropped Bixby.
Comment on Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant
joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That does explain why they dropped Bixby.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Bixby was actually pretty useful before they abandoned it. I remember using Bixby Routines to configure my phone to set itself to vibrate when I was at work and within work hours. I can’t seem to do anything but an or condition with Google’s replacement, “Modes and Routines.”
Virkkunen@kbin.social 11 months ago
Modes & Routines is literally Bixby Routines renamed to remove the Bixby branding (and to avoid confusion with people thinking it's part of the voice assistant). Absolutely nothing was removed from this change other than the Bixby name.
Judging by the fact that you can set multiple if conditions (and it explicitly says "when all conditions below are met") straight from the main view of the routine, it means you haven't even tried creating a routine at all.
https://i.imgur.com/zjouWZj.png
joyjoy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Hm. Turns out mode is something different from a routine. Who knew?
Thanks for the tip.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My Samsung (s23+) comes with modes and routines installed, and it appears to be Samsung not Google, at least according to samsung app store.
fwiw.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google is shortly replacing all assistant apps with GPT powered versions. They gutted the dev teams to skeleton crews a while back, then restocked the departments woth machine learning people. The teams can’t work together at all, and that’s why the products are shit now. I’ve very little faith in future advancements from these teams of disparate developers.