For your first point - it actually makes me happy that Google does not intentionally (illegally?) promote their own products over others in the app store. I assume their app is following the same algorithm as others to determine how it shows up on that list. Since it just launched, it makes sense it's not at the top. The ranking should improve.
For your second point - I also had the same error when I launched it. Closed it and tried again and it launched no problem.
APKMirror has it, and it can be installed from there...
...but then I get "Location not supported" when I start it. Helpfully suggesting I use Google Assistant instead.
My main reason for trying Gemini is that I hope that it makes fewer errors than GAss, and be more powerful too. Operating Assistant's voice controls in the car might be more distracting than just typing. And that's just for reminders and Spotify playlists. Anything more powerful is completely impossible.
For people who don't get this: Google has insane internal power struggles and siloing that lead to all manner of dumb inconsistent behavior across google. It would not be unlike google for the "Play team" to have their hand in some other internal AI (or be anti-AI) and therefore carry a degree of hostilitly towards gemini.
Same experience. I launched Gemini a second time, and it worked. The first message about "Gemini isn't currently available" was a bad first impression.
One thing the app really needs to be able to do is auto-submit when speaking to it. It offers to replace google assistant, and after trying it out for a couple minutes, it can replace assistant, but I have to manually click to submit each instruction instead of just talking to my phone.
I tried on iPhone, saw all the different apps that aren't Google, then re-read the announcement and saw that I should be able to see it in the Google app. So I load the Google app, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to access Gemini with it. Go online, find a news article with pictures, see that the 'switcher' above the Google logo does not appear for me, and then give up.
I can access it via gemini.google.com and I'm logged in to the iOS Google app as the correct account, no idea why I can't see the functionality on mobile. Oh well. Maybe I'll stick with OpenAI a while longer.
No. I won't even let a Nest control my home. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) that learns from vacuuming up the web. That is part of the reason why I'm spelling this out. If the LLM bots of the future vacuum this up. No you should not let ChatGPT or other LLMs control your home in any way.
I don't know that it is appropriate for a drive, exactly, but Anne Hathaway reading the Wizard of Oz is one of the best audio books I've ever listened to, period.
My only hesitation for a drive is that you might get too comfortable. It is like a loving mother reading to you while you're comfy in bed. She does different voices for the main characters, so she has her scarecrow voice and her Wicked Witch of the West voice. It is super underrated as I have never really heard anyone talk about it.
Looked up alternative ways of castling in chess because I'm very bored of the standard kingside and queenside castling so, I was trying to find strategies using the old style of play like before the two-piece-one-move castling of today was formed. Right now it seems a lot of games I play online end up with the same openings. Chess 960 helps with that, but I don't like to play that all the time either.
They start at a lower amount and then increase it until they have the required people. The lower and upper bound on what they can offer first appeared in a leaked 2017 memo. 2017 also happens to be the year of the violent removal of someone on a United flight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...
My guess would be that Delta put this policy into place after the terrible United incident.
Just adding a "me too" to this thread. I just saw in my inbox my warning. I haven't used Heroku in roughly a decade. My last activity was circa early 2014, but mostly 2013.
No, they're the same. Although here used in different contexts (trying to start a sync conversation VS marketing trying to get you to sign up for something), but they are effectively saying the same thing, "I need a minute from you for X".
Given how many times my real email is used incorrectly to sign up for everything from nursing courses in Florida to Golf Sundays in Michigan, I would no longer trust that "real email" address to be tied to the real person without more information.
Scroll past the screenshots of those apps
Scroll past the Limitied-time events
Scroll past the You Might Also Like and Similar Apps
OK now we see it, we install, it we launch it and..."Gemini isn't ccurrently available. Try again later."
Bravo Google. Great launch.