Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

And it's nice that Google are bringing along their smart home.

I mean, I could have, I felt like, you know, given their history, we could have totally expected to see

them just be like, okay, we're going to just cut that off at the legs and start fresh.

But they've put a lot of effort into bringing old devices and bringing the whole ecosystem of how you used Google Assistant before into Gemini for Home.

It's been a bumpy ride, though.

I mean, I think it means that people that are using for Gemini for Home today who have previously used Google Assistant are still finding things that they can't do.

But

Talking to the Google Home folks, they are constantly trying to add these old features back into the new system.

And hopefully they will work better once they're here.

Well, yes.

Again, at this conference I was just at, Unify, which is the conference from Connectivity Standards Alliance, the people behind MATA, the originator of the term Internet of Things was talking.

And he was railing against smart appliances.

He's like, we do not need smart appliances anymore.

We do not need a smart fridge.

We do not need a smart dishwasher.

He was saying we need to put AI into creating much more valuable experiences because he doesn't see any value in the current experiences.

But when it comes to thermostats, I think the specific argument here is actually these were already using a form of AI.

Exactly.

It was one of the earliest technologies

machine learning devices we put in our homes.