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I'm sure this post has been made before, but I just want to add a few things.

Gemini sucks compared to the Google Assistant.

I just switched from Apple to Samsung, and the Gemini assistant is significantly worse than Siri (which has historically been known as the worst AFAIK). When trying to send a text message, Gemini regularly takes 5-6 seconds, sometimes up to 10, just to ask me what I want to say. Siri does the same thing in 2-3 seconds. That isn't the only thing that is slower either, asking simple questions, setting timers, changing the volume etc. all takes 25%-50% longer than Siri.

That's because Gemini uses LLMS and generative AI instead of simple voice commands like the original Google Assistant. Upon using the Google Assistant, the load times were halved, and almost no functionality has been lost.

The reason we use Android over Apple is for the freedom of choice and customization. If I wanted to be forced into one choice, I would have just stayed with Apple.

Give us the ability to choose.

My apologies I teach Google how to use their own Google Calendar but it is OCTOBER.

Their website says - "software updates start rolling out in September."

So is it NOT rolling just.... t-rolling

Now that Google Assistant is gone forever like the dodo, there's no one to ask my phone to play my curated list of news sources. I used to simply say, "Good Morning Google" and it would bring up my day, weather, and play a series of podcasts with my selected news sources, which updated as much as half hourly.

Now there's no way, even through Google Home, to bring back this functionality. I'm gutted.

Edit: When i tell gemini "Play my news briefing" or any of other alternatives here, it does nothing, gathers news sources from the web and summarises, or says it's playing but it doesn't do anything.