Epic, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, is seeking to show that executives at the Alphabet Inc. unit were eager to discourage the proliferation of third-party app stores that would cut into Google Play’s operating profit.
Maybe. I’ve always thought that Samsung has wanted to maintain a fully operational, competing ecosystem so that it can slot something into place if Google suddenly cuts it out of their walled garden. That includes throwing anything at the wall, to see what sticks.
Not even Google seemed to care about a universal assistant, based on how they cut down their own application from its original feature set (things like showing reminders, etc) to just being an annoying news app now… Maybe Samsung was faster on the draw there.
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.”
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.
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.
That does explain why they dropped Bixby.
Maybe. I’ve always thought that Samsung has wanted to maintain a fully operational, competing ecosystem so that it can slot something into place if Google suddenly cuts it out of their walled garden. That includes throwing anything at the wall, to see what sticks.
Not even Google seemed to care about a universal assistant, based on how they cut down their own application from its original feature set (things like showing reminders, etc) to just being an annoying news app now… Maybe Samsung was faster on the draw there.
Or maybe they’re giving up. Who knows.
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.”
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
Hm. Turns out mode is something different from a routine. Who knew?
Thanks for the tip.
I’m having flashbacks to Tasker.
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.
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.