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Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins (9to5google.com)
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[–] christov@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I switched a few months ago and overall its been an excellent experience. Some pitfalls though:

  1. Banking apps may not work, Santander in the UK for example but I'm going to transfer away from them
  2. Contactless pay through google wallet doesn't work, I couldn't find a way to attach a card to the back of my phone and also keep pixel snap usable so I bought a small pixel snap wallet that works nicely
  3. Recently Volkswagen and vw group enabled google play attestation for their app and not hardware attestation, so my cars app no longer works. This is probably the most frustrating for me because as an EV owner there's no other way to track the charge of your car other than via the app. This is particularly annoying when using public charge points and you can't track the charge progress when walking away from the car. First world problem, I can just leave it alone and let it charge without keeping an eye on it but that's annoying to me, I'm sure I'll get over it.
  4. Because of the above, I'm concerned other apps may start to follow suit. For example "too good to go" in the UK is "not compatible" with my device from the play store because it doesn't pass the play attestation... Hopefully it's not a trend.

Overall though I would highly recommend. All the other main features work flawlessly.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

One of my banking apps enabled Google Play attestation. It's really infuriating. I don't understand the point either - AFAIK all apps need to be signed with the dev's private key anyway, don't they? If they are then why would anyone care where I downloaded it from?

[–] Ekpu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Take a look at OVMS (open vehicle monitoring system). I use it since I have an EV because I don't want to pay for "connected services".