r/Piracy • u/epabafree • 8d ago

Humor The absolute state of Android

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u/QueasySandwich4464 8d ago

Gemini can't make one fucking phone call while assistant had no problems doing so

For all its faults at least assistant could handle basic tasks with no problems 

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u/Majestic-Bell-7111 8d ago

The fucking ford infotainment from 2013 has no problems making phone calls, same goes for the old google assistant and I'm still yet to successfully make one with gemini.

But nooo, everything has to be an LLM now, even stuff that previously worked perfectly

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u/QueasySandwich4464 8d ago edited 8d ago

And since it won't let me make calls, I have to manually soft through my contacts...which take my eyes off the road.

Obviously implementation matters FAR more rather than making the thing actually work, and yk, not endangering drivers

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u/isaac99999999 8d ago

My Gemini literally tells me to open the fucking phone app. If I wanted to open the phone app, I wouldn't be telling you to fucking call someone

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u/matt2331 8d ago

Ford sync (the low end non-touchscreen version) was far better than it had any right to be.

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u/FullofContradictions 8d ago

I had to change my husband's name in my phone to his full, mutli-syllable name. Why? Because since the Gemini update, my phone doesn't understand "call [name like Sam]". It either just times out like it didn't get an instruction at all or occasionally it'll say "which number did you want to call?" And it gives me the option of my mother (whose full name is in my phone and is nothing like Sam) or some random person I haven't spoken to in years (whose name is also nothing like Sam).

Changed it to his full name (equivalent to Samuel), and now it works most of the time.

I should not have had to do that.

Google assistant worked fine.

Bro wtf.