Say what you will about Google, but bugs such as these, released to the public (or their enterprise customers) this debilitating to a core product, are exceedingly rare.
Who have an insane amount of money and resources to get things right, and all of the SRE literature imaginable, published by Google. Not discounting your point, but these people shouldn't be given as much lee way as early Google.
Insane amounts of money don’t make the right employees or corporate structure appear out of thin air or answer questions about how novel architectures perform under novel conditions overnight.
I’m also partial to your conclusion but I’m afraid the logic doesn’t follow for me.
I can tell you don’t have Google home. Responding with complete nonsense is now the status quo for that product.
Myself and everyone I know have gone from complex routines, smart home control, and interacting with calendars… to basically using it as a voice activated radio since it can’t be trusted for much else.
Timers? Might get set, might not. Might tell you it’s set then cancel itself. Might activate in a different room. Might play an obscure punk song on Spotify with the word timer in the album name.
Spotify? Here’s a weird house remix of that popular song you requested, from an artist with 300 listens.
Calendar? I’m sorry I didn’t understand that.
Turn off the kitchen light? Ok, turning off 23 lights.
Play a classic viral youtube video? Sure, here’s a compilation of videos that doesn’t contain the one you asked for.
BY THE WAY, DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN USE GOOGLE HOME TO PLAY CHILDRENS GAMES? SURE ITS 11 PM AND YOU DONT HAVE KIDS AND YOU ASKED ME TO TURN OFF THE BEDROOM LIGHTS, BUT HERES HOW YOU CAN DO THAT.
Is that how bad it got? I was using one up to around maybe 2019-2020 and it seemed pretty good at the time, definitely didn’t experience a lot of what you did
It was fantastic 2017-2020. At one point I had 8 or 9 around the house and loved it. But one by one, every single feature or voice command I would use would either stop working or become unpredictable. Integrations with other hardware or companies would cease without warning. Latency became more pronounced.
And of course being Google there’s no such thing as a changelog, so everyone is left guessing what they’ve changed and whether there’s a passable workaround.
r/googlehome is a sight to behold when viewed as a testament to how to slowly ruin a product.
