{"id":2262,"date":"2016-12-19T07:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T23:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T06:51:39","slug":"okay-google-you-need-a-cuter-name-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/okay-google-you-need-a-cuter-name-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay Google, you need a cuter name – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After one month, I give up. I just can’t get over Google Home’s biggest flaw.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first thing I say when I wake up every morning is \u201cOkay Google\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now don\u2019t worry\u200a-\u200ait\u2019s not shrieked amidst some kind of panicked, cold sweat. I\u2019m not having nightmares about search engines, or even the prolonged suffering of Google+ (though someone surely should be).<\/p>\n

For the past month, saying \u201cGoogle\u201d is the way I\u2019ve been turning off my alarm, ever since being sent a review unit of Google Home, the new smart assistant.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how you wake it up. With \u201cOkay Google\u201d.<\/p>\n

Okay Google.<\/i><\/p>\n

Not content with controlling much of our online -\u200aand offline\u200a- lives, Google now wants us to shout out its name in our own homes.<\/p>\n

The first morning I did it I felt ridiculous, but figured I should give it time. After a month, it\u2019s time up, and it doesn\u2019t feel any better. I\u2019ll now attempt to explain why this may pose a problem.<\/p>\n

Piece of metal<\/strong><\/p>\n

I often tease my predecessor in this job, Richard Taylor, for being the only person I know who uses Apple\u2019s personal assistant Siri to its fullest.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be standing there, minding your own business, and Richard will pull out his phone and start dictating a text message. Right there. In front of strangers. I find it awkward, he finds it convenient.<\/p>\n

Source: Okay Google, you need a cuter name – BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After one month, I give up. I just can’t get over Google Home’s biggest flaw. The first thing I say when I wake up every morning is \u201cOkay Google\u201d. Now don\u2019t worry\u200a-\u200ait\u2019s not shrieked amidst some kind of panicked, cold sweat. I\u2019m not having nightmares about search engines, or even the prolonged suffering of Google+ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[188,38],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}