Latest Version of Android Has Gemini AI at Its Core
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Latest Version of Android Has Gemini AI at Its Core
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True. Even when Google introduced Magic eraser, they didn't release it only for latest mobiles. It is available for everyone with a Google photos/drive subscription. I can use it even in my iPhone. If Apple is bringing AI to iOs 18, I do hope that they do release it for every iPhone with Neural Engine SoC.
Don't worry, Google will cancel it after a couple years.. it's what they're good at.
Apple will put a tiny language model that runs on device and tell that they do it cos they want to protect user's privacy. In return, Apple don't have to bear the cost of building and maintaining those GPU powered data centers.
Exactly, the guy who had the idea with "privacy", and therefore withholding features, was a genius.
Galaxy S24, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro.
That’s it.
And don’t forget about optimization, one thing Android users hate to talk about. After installing just ONE MAJOR UPDATE phone magically turns into pumpkin, starts to lag and at the end of the day owner rushes to an Apple Store to get an iPhone and never touch this Android-infested stuff again.
(Or rarely does a “second contact”, buys new Android flagship each 1-2 years)
Probably because the more users Google gets on their AI platforms. The more data they steal to sell on.
The art of great service is when the service is entirely invisible. Just what is needed, when it is needed, without needing to ask. That's it. Everything else is an annoying popup.
This could the end of the iPhone …
Why?
Features like „Circle to Search“ need a deeeeeeeep integration into the OS and a search engine in the background that is again tightly coupled with the AI assistant.
Many of the shown features do exist basically in Google Lens and other Google services, so what we see are many existing Google components integrated with Gemini and Android.
Your turn, Apple. Invent or die …
Why?
Features like „Circle to Search“ need a deeeeeeeep integration into the OS and a search engine in the background that is again tightly coupled with the AI assistant.
Many of the shown features do exist basically in Google Lens and other Google services, so what we see are many existing Google components integrated with Gemini and Android.
Your turn, Apple. Invent or die …
pray tell is your OS connected to the internet and do you yourself use said internet?
do you actually think you have digital privacy?
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Google Today: "Look at all these great AI features we are building into ANDROID!"
Google at I/O: "Look at all these great AI features that we built into Android and are exclusive to Pixel!"
Samsung at Unpacked: "Look at our flavor of what we've done with AI in Galaxy phones!"
Android phone owners: "I wonder what features I'll actually get on whatever phone I choose to buy."
Google at I/O: "Look at all these great AI features that we built into Android and are exclusive to Pixel!"
Samsung at Unpacked: "Look at our flavor of what we've done with AI in Galaxy phones!"
Android phone owners: "I wonder what features I'll actually get on whatever phone I choose to buy."
If everything else fails, they can just pay Google another $20 billion.
That's....a take.
How much underbaked garbage has Google put out and then killed when it starts to rot?
...far more than Apple. I was an Android user for 4 years but came back to the iPhone because the user experience is just night and day beyond what Google offers. Plus their Pixel hardware (not the features, the actual build, fit, and finish) just got worse and worse and worse generation to generation.
Sadly that's generally where this AI stuff is at right now. Underbaked. Its just a repackaging of a few impractical whiz-bang things called AI and marketed as such because its the hot tech buzzword right now.
As well as end of any tiny piece of privacy. Having your data analyzed all the time is kinda creepy. It is like having a personal policeman who lives in your house, searches your dirty clothes without any warrant and occasionally says “oh, you might need to buy a new washing machine. Your seems to be old”
Lawyers in particular would be very ill-advised to use this in their work.
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Google's approach to AI: Roll out to as many users as possible...without testing it in conditions other than those that were planned when they developed it, just like Android 14.
My Google Pixel 6a will receive the update too early and they'll likely call my data corrupt and force me to return to Factory Settings, wiping my data, again.
Thank goodness for my iPhone.