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Google Says Assistant Will Be On a Billion Devices By the End of the Month, Up From Around 400 Million Devices Last Year (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

Days after Amazon revealed that 100 million Alexa-enabled devices have been sold, Google said today that it expects the billionth device with its AI Assistant to be sold later this month. From a report: Ahead of CES this morning, Google dropped a little stat update: Google expects Assistant to be on 1 billion devices total by the end of this month. That's up from around 400M devices this time a year ago. Google first announced Assistant back in May of 2016. By October of that year, they'd rolled it out to the Pixel/Pixel XL; nowadays, it's on TVs, smart speakers, tablets, smart watches, and just about every new Android phone that hits the market.

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  1. Fine. Now how do I remote it? by dargaud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This fucker keeps opening on my phone. I've followed several tutorials on how to remove or disable it, but none work. I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO MY PHONE. Is that not clear enough ?

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    1. Re:Fine. Now how do I remote it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      You can't remove it, as Google will not let you. Same happened on my Nexus devices, some forced update pushed that crap into my devices, even though they are unsupported from security patches point of view by Google.
      Somehow they do have man power to port these spyware softwares to every Android OS version ever shipped, but their OS security updates end after two year of device launch.

  2. Like I was given a choice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They push it out, no real way to turn off/delete, and claim its a successful product? How delusional are these idiots??