The ability of Google Assistant on Android and in the various systems where it is present to use the voice of your assistant is indisputable. Now close those third-party note apps that many users use in Europe to add products to the shopping list. The flexibility he offered is cut entirely.
Using voice to add any type of product to the shopping list in the user’s favorite application is something very common, and it allows you to open it at that time in which we will enter the supermarket
But now Google wants to use that shopping list forever through one of its most-used apps, Keep. It is one of the third-party apps that have been used to add notes or create a shopping list are left on their own.
Thus, Google joins the current trend of closing access to the APIs of social networks such as Twitter. Elon Musk has already dramatically increased the cost of using the micromessaging social network API, making Twitter clients like Talon for Android used by millions of users. should cease their development for a total abandonment by this company.
This is exactly what happens with Google Assistant, although in this case no option is offered to use applications like AnyList and Bring, which in part its use was based on the voice assistant
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Google’s documentation has also been updated to reflect this disappointing change, making it clear that End of support for all note services or creating lists except Google Keep. June 20 is the chosen date.
What is curious is that, according to android fontAmazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri continue to support third-party note apps, and the change is only being made effective by Google. East almost like throwing stones at your own roofand opens the door to many users preferring to use the Amazon Assistant for these tasks.
In fact, Amazon has its Echo Show 15 smart display as a must-have kitchen product for add all the necessary food items on the next purchase in the supermarket. Therefore, it is now easy to switch to Alexa in Europe in order to continue using the application of your choice.
Everyone knows that Google Keep is a great app, but when a user gets used to using an app on a daily basis and suddenly, overnight, they can’t use it like they have for years, the experience deteriorates into force changes in their daily habits. We will see if Google rectifies in this direction, but according to its history, everything seems to indicate that it will continue to be wrong with this change of direction.
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