Googles approach to smart stuff is so weird and backwards.

Google Now was truly impressive. It genuinely saved time, and it’s smartness could easily wow people.

Assistant is already a massive step backwards from that, but compared to both Siri and in particular Alexa at least understands you better and can control most smart home stuff.

And now Gemini shows that the only use case Google seems to be aware of is people doing searches via voice input. As if that is what people used Now/Assistant for…