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by epoll 2436 days ago
It's pretty hard to use Google assistant on an iPhone. The integration just isn't as good, and I suspect different speech models are used given that on device models depend a lot on hardware. It'll be nice to try it on a pixel phone and feel the difference yourself, but I don't know how you can do that without buying a new phone :) I switched to Pixel 3a initially for its camera and also I'm holding off a premium phone purchase until 5G comes about. I'm impressed with what Pixel 3a does with camera via better software. But what's genuinely surprising is the google assistant speech model quality and integration. I ended up buying a home mini and am planning to buy a smart display to get more of that. I'm unusual in that I don't really care about data privacy issues with Google. The convenience is worth it for me personally. But my main point is the processor benchmark matters, but it's not the only thing that matters :)