Google has killed Android for me
Google has killed Android for me I received an email today informing me that Google Assistant is being discontinued and replaced by Gemini. Brilliant. So the simple, useful assistant that did what it was told is being replaced by a smug voiced AI that frequently misunderstands basic instructions, confidently produces rubbish and seems far more interested in forcing AI into every part of my phone than actually helping me. The biggest problem is not simply that Gemini is poor. It is that Google has decided we should have no meaningful choice. I bought an Android phone, not a compulsory subscription to Google’s latest AI experiment. Other users are raising exactly the same complaints: inaccurate answers, frustrating interactions, intrusive behaviour and an inability to properly remove something they never asked for in the first place. I have used Android for years, but this genuinely has me looking for another operating system. Android was supposed to represent flexibility and user control. Apparently that ends when Google wants to inflate its Gemini usage figures. Slow clap, Google. You have taken something that worked, replaced it with total AI rubbish and removed the customer’s ability to say no. Not that Google will care.