alt Hacker NewsI think Gemini could be a great product, if they didn't decide to stuff it down my throat at every possible occasion.
Recent example: on my e-reader, tapping a word I don't now and clicking "Translate" pulls up the possible translations from a dictionary, a local file just a couple of megabytes big, near instantly, on this tiny processor.
Doing the same on my Android phone starts a Gemini-chat with the prompt "Translate the word x into y". Takes forever, internet access needed, results vary, burns who knows who much energy.
Why? Just why?
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bayindirh • today at 11:37 AM
That kind of shoving down is pretty bad, I agree.
I neither use Android devices nor Google Search, so the only Gemini thing I see is the Gemini chat interface.
I understand the pain, though.
So that some team at Google can hit their OKRs for user adoption and get promoted.