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"AI" on my phone is so incredibly unappealing. I don't understand who this is for.
by seneca 2y ago
"AI" on my phone is so incredibly unappealing. I don't understand who this is for.
- cedws 2y agoAI phone… AI laptop… AI car… AI toothbrush… yeah nobody’s asking for this shit. It’s just uninventive, unimaginative marketing rubbish. Real innovation doesn’t need to go looking for use cases.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoTotally agree. Look at the marketing text on the Pixel Fold (https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro_fold?hl=en-US https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro_fold?hl=en-U...): “An epic display of Google AI. All the magic of Gemini on Pixel's largest screen.“ It is not only completely cringeworthy, but also nonsensical. How does having a bigger display affect AI at all? What sets it apart from other Pixels? Nothing. I am honestly shocked that this company can keep putting out garbage like this. Any smaller company or startup would go bankrupt and cannot afford to be this sloppy and incompetent. This is only possible if your company has enormous cash reserves and monopolistic market position, where you can eat losses and fail repeatedly on epic scales.
- shinycode 2y agoNever in my life I will buy any Google product. They so easily kill products used by millions without second thought. This destroyed my trust in the company, they just don’t care enough, it’s all about profit and their monopolistic position. I hope other smaller companies with better ethics will emerge
- adamc 2y agoWell, from the phone viewpoint people buy them to get a less garbage-filled android experience. Most consumers don't really expect phones to last forever... because they seldom do.
- shinycode 2y agoMy comment is still valid for software killed in the mobile space. I don’t know what other people feel but I have a strange feeling that, because they have so much money, anything other than search is built temporarily. All their software, their apps and services aren’t build to last. It’s built for now and later they will abandon to start from scratch. It’s easier to start over from scratch with a new team than to make what’s been built last. That comes from a shortsighted vision that I dislike.
- adamc 2y agoI have no quarrel with your viewpoint. Beyond search, everything is basically a strategem to get eyeballs at Google.
- adamc 2y agoMonopolies are very profitable.
- throwaway48476 2y agoIt's for the investors.