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Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by millstone on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:18AM (#17141750)
If Google promised to not inject more ads into My Day, I'd give them a break. But they did the opposite, committing to "continuing to experiment with new ways to surface unique content for users."

Regarding unexpectedly recording users: even if only one user was affected, the issue is that Google didn't show contrition. They characterized the problem as "touch controls behaving incorrectly" and did not acknowledge the privacy violation, except indirectly.

There's no conspiracy required here, the logic is very simple. Google is not losing money on these devices for fun.

Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by ehsankia on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:05AM (#17150763)
How is literally driving to the house of the person affected 30m after receiving the email and replacing the broken device "not showing remorse"? I honestly don't understand HN sometimes, do you want them to literally lie about what happened? It was a hardware bug, and they literally had to cripple the device and disable touch control for every single device out there, to avoid this happening again, even though realistically it was only 0.001% of the devices that were affected. But again, they didn't take a chance and completely disabled that feature. Yet apparently that's "not shownig any remorse"...

As for ads, again, who cares what they said, actions is what matters. There hasn't been any other content like that since then.

Re:Google Home Beats Amazon Echo in Q1 2018 Smart Speaker Sh... by jrs95 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:38AM (#17143003)
Google Now probably does the same thing, but it's still incredibly useful.