Personally I'm really looking forward to arguing with a schizophrenic chat bot in order to launch my phone's camera or something. Much more natural and intuitive than pressing a button.
I'm really not a fan of when features are teased as "coming to Android 14." There is absolutely no shot this gets upstreamed to AOSP.
Reading between the lines in the article, this is going to end up in an update to Google's launcher app, or maybe their wallpaper app. At most, their closed source flavor of SystemUI.
But for the growing number of us compiling AOSP from source and using it to get away from Google's spying, it's disingenuous to keep advertising these features as "coming to Android 14."
Heck - if this feature makes it in any of the apps like I said it might, then there's really no reason to lock it to Android 14. It could easily run on Android 12 and 13. But it won't, because Google wants you to buy a new phone.
I agree. There are a lot of things I find interesting only to discover it's artificially restricted to Pixel devices as well. I think this might be part of why Android releases no longer feel as exciting.
I wonder what that's likely to be. Usually the top Android features are finalized by now. Unless they're are some Pixel exclusive features we don't know about
"Android 14, our latest OS, will incorporate our advances in generative AI to personalize Android phones," Pichai stated during the call. "The Pixel and Android teams are working together to advance the latest devices." He highlights the new Pixel Fold as an example of how the hardware and software come together, which has been praised by Android Central's Nicholas Sutrich.
I'm assuming it's going to be more on the side of the wallpaper stuff. I would personally rather see more time saving features than things aimed at personalization.
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