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Google paid Samsung $8 billion to be the default search engine, app store and voice assistant (www.cnbctv18.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That does explain why they dropped Bixby.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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 and it's still the same good and old Samsung developed app, Google has nothing to do with it.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hm. Turns out mode is something different from a routine. Who knew?

Thanks for the tip.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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.