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Just deactivate all the assistants altogether. I always delete all the Google stuff from my phones and I don't think I'm missing out on anything. I have a clock app including timers, a calendar app, a notes app and a browser... What would I need an "assistant" for?
It was nice for the last many years to be able to say "hey Google, remind me in one month to give the dogs their flea meds" and then sure as shit, one month later, it told me like magic with a ding and a notification.
I wonder what happened to all the scheduled reminders I had already for months to a year from now ... Gone, I guess.
Open calendar, type in title, set to repeat monthly.
If you can't understand the utility of being able to speak commands to an assistant for simple tasks as opposed to unlocking phone and thumbing on a screen, context switching several times throughout the process, that is totally fine. You're probably a smart cookie.
But you have to understand that your experience is so divorced from your fellow man that you should think of yourself as a bit of an alien and the exception. STT voice command interface is incredibly useful, and this is coming from someone who doesn't use it for privacy reasons either.
It's undeniably an incredibly efficient user input paradigm, much more so than thumbing on a screen in the opinion of many.
Smart cookies should be advocating for open / local solutions for STT voice interfaces, not denying their proven utility altogether with flippancy.
This wasn't necessary. They were just providing a low tech reliable solution that works well also. I don't see that they were shitting on anyone else's systems for staying organized.