I think “when I get to this store” is still a time. Android used to be able to handle reminding you “when” you got to a place, but I guess they dropped that feature. So IMO this is on the assistant for not doing what it used to do.
It’s a time, but it’s an unspecified one. It very specifically stated “say what time you want your reminder” after a location was given, indicating that doing it by location wasn’t an option. The user wasn’t paying enough attention.
I think what’s key here is that you used to be able to do this. I used to use Google assistant regularly and I feel like I’ve discovered dropped features through frustrated exchanges like this. It’s easy to miss that it specifically asked for time when you’re in autopilot mode and expecting that if there’s an error, it just misheard you
I see what you mean, on like the fourth try the assistant explicitly said “just give me the time”.
I guess it’s philosophical whether you say the user was “wrong”. Continuing to ask wasn’t going to get them any closer to the reminder being set, so I guess you could call that “wrong” if you want to say they should be savvy enough to know that. They might have even known that but still carried on, I do that sometimes just because.
IMO this software should be pushed to adapt to natural language if they want to keep pretending it’s s m a r t. If you were asking this to a person (who was somehow always with you…) and they said “just tell me the time”, you’d say I don’t know what time it will be, just remind me whenever we get there!
I think “when I get to this store” is still a time. Android used to be able to handle reminding you “when” you got to a place, but I guess they dropped that feature. So IMO this is on the assistant for not doing what it used to do.
It’s a time, but it’s an unspecified one. It very specifically stated “say what time you want your reminder” after a location was given, indicating that doing it by location wasn’t an option. The user wasn’t paying enough attention.
I think what’s key here is that you used to be able to do this. I used to use Google assistant regularly and I feel like I’ve discovered dropped features through frustrated exchanges like this. It’s easy to miss that it specifically asked for time when you’re in autopilot mode and expecting that if there’s an error, it just misheard you
I see what you mean, on like the fourth try the assistant explicitly said “just give me the time”.
I guess it’s philosophical whether you say the user was “wrong”. Continuing to ask wasn’t going to get them any closer to the reminder being set, so I guess you could call that “wrong” if you want to say they should be savvy enough to know that. They might have even known that but still carried on, I do that sometimes just because.
IMO this software should be pushed to adapt to natural language if they want to keep pretending it’s s m a r t. If you were asking this to a person (who was somehow always with you…) and they said “just tell me the time”, you’d say I don’t know what time it will be, just remind me whenever we get there!
The main reason I think of the user as “wrong” in this case is because they got angry at the end, fair or not!