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Re:Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by cr... by mcintyre1994 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @03:38AM (#12650818)
> And I ask Google Maps to direct me home and it points me at Home Depot

On iOS? You can tell Google your home/work addresses in settings, I ask for directions/transit home multiple times most weeks and it works. On Android they can figure them out, but on iOS they don't have enough permissions and you'll have to tell them - but when you do this works.

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Re:Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by cr... by SysArchitect on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:02AM (#12652492)
Google could request permission to access my contacts, which would give them access to my contact card, which has that information...

Instead they want me to sign into Google and it wants that info to then be stored on Google's servers.

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