Is the Google Pixel team incapable of understanding Machine Learning?

[Aflaaaak]

My first Smart Phone was an LG G4. Great phone, and "learned" my most common ways to do certain things, like how I shared photos and links, and to whom I shared them with. What I hit the Share button, I was immediately presented with shortcuts to the most common way I had been sharing them, and the people I'd shared them the most with in the past. This was 2022. I replaced my G4 when it boot looped for the second time, but was happy to get a new phone by then as it had started to feel incredibly slow, and the only new batteries I could find were crappy ones made by 3rd Party manufacturers that didn't last.

My next phone was a Pixel 6 Pro. Nice screen, great call screening and Hold For Me features. But, it could only remember my most used method for sharing photos or links for a couple weeks, then it would reset and give me all kinds of new suggested ways to share I'd never even used even ONCE, and leave my MOST common app second to last on the expanded list. I thought my next phone, a Pixel 9 Pro XL would have worked that out, but apparently Google is f*** STUPID, and to this day, STILL does this. Is there any hope? I mentioned it to their Tech Support when dealing with the fallout from one of their bad Updates (which MOST are), and they had no clue. Is Samsung smart enough to figure this basic machine learning "trick"?

 

[notforhire]

Is Samsung smart enough to figure this basic machine learning "trick"?

Every time I go to share a link/pic/etc., I always get my most used apps and recipients. Even after moving from one Galaxy to the next via Smart Switch, the "learning" holds.

 

[Aflaaaak]

Every time I go to share a link/pic/etc., I always get my most used apps and recipients. Even after moving from one Galaxy to the next via Smart Switch, the "learning" holds.

Exactly as it should be! Makes me think Google engineers are stupid, or just don't care.

 

[notforhire]

Exactly as it should be! Makes me think Google engineers are stupid, or just don't care.

that's a separate post

 

[Aflaaaak]

that's a separate post

LOL! Yeah, for sure!

 

[Mooncatt]

Well for what it's worth, this is an Android thing, not a Pixel phone thing. I've had this same issue from my prior LG phones and now on a Sony. I've never used Samsung, so maybe they are an outlier, but my experience is their OS and software developers feel the need to justify their existence by changing things that don't need to be changed. Job security, I guess.

 

[mustang7757]

Depends what app you're sharing from and Samsung allows you to customize a little bit .

 

[Aflaaaak]

Well for what it's worth, this is an Android thing, not a Pixel phone thing. I've had this same issue from my prior LG phones and now on a Sony. I've never used Samsung, so maybe they are an outlier, but my experience is their OS and software developers feel the need to justify their existence by changing things that don't need to be changed. Job security, I guess.

I went directly from an LG G4 to my Pixel 6P. One of the first things I noticed was the inability of my new P6 to learn my sharing habits for more than a couple weeks, which worked so well on my LG. It's gotta be a Pixel GUI problem, not an Android problem

 

[Aflaaaak]

Depends what app you're sharing from and Samsung allows you to customize a little bit .

It wasn't so much as me proactively customizing anything, it was that the phone "learned" what apps you use most often for sharing photos, and presented those as "first choices" when displaying a short list of how to share a pic.

 

[edubfromktown]

My thought is that they wear velcro shoes (unable to tie traditional ones).

They most certainly do not fully grasp CI/CD pipelines and modern (and less error rampant) development strategies as of YET /s