Google is (sort of) killing third-party smart displays

Google’s virtual assistant today is available in a wide variety of gadgets. Partly from Google itself — but also from other hardware manufacturers that are collaborating with the company to make their own gadgets even smarter.

Monitors equipped with speakers are a category of connected home products where Assistant has been baked into large scale by companies like JBL and Lenovo. The touch screen, in particular, provided another interface for the user to control the smart home with. But since Google has also entered the fray, the future of other manufacturers is unclear. And now it’s clear that the IT giant will stop sending updates to other people’s monitors.

that it 9 to 5 Google Which states that Google has updated their support pages with the message (translated into Swedish by us):

Viktigt: Google skickar inte längre ut mjukvaruuppdateringar till dessa smartskärmar: Lenovo Smart Display (7, 8 och 10 tum), JBL Link View och LG Xboom AI Thinq WK9 Smart Display. Detta kan påverka kvaliteten på videosamtal- och -möten.
Of course, this does not mean that Google “kills” gadgets completely. They will continue to work, but over time they will become obsolete. 9 to 5 Google notes that Google has prioritized updating its Nest Hub devices over other devices, in part due to the fact that it runs on the company’s Fuchsia operating system.

Given the extremely rapid advances in artificial intelligence that are currently taking place, describe the edge The status of virtual assistants in general is uncertain. A lot could happen in the near future – for example in Google IO, which happens in exactly one month.