2016/08/22 11:06am PDTAug 22, 2016

Update 1: 2016/08/22 11:13am PDT
Official comment from Senior VP of Android, Chrome, and Google Play Hiroshi Lockheimer. @RDR0b11 @AndroidPolice — Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) August 22, 2016

Google Assistant seems... fun. Taken from a prerelease version of Allo. (And yes, this is what will happen if you send Google Assistant a poo emoji in Allo.)

Official comment from Senior VP of Android, Chrome, and Google Play Hiroshi Lockheimer.

@RDR0b11 @AndroidPolice

— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) August 22, 2016

Huge if true.

Comments

Abz Productions

ew
Đức Thành

lolwut
Jens Törnblad

Dear Google, please release this today.
TechGuy22

glad you liked it
Georg Eitler

Well, this article is kinda shit :)
Rawhi Mohammad

Its not fun when you play by yourself! #apkplz =}
- Gjorgi Lazarovski
  
  http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/allo-by-google/allo-by-google-0-1-177_rc04-arm64-v8a-release/allo-google-0-1-177_rc04-arm64-v8a-android-apk-download/
- René Simonsen
  
  You can't use the apk. Phone number activation will not work, so the app would be useless anyway.
ConCal

AP confirmed.
- FernandoCole
  
  What?
- FernandoCole
  
  What AP confirmed?
Jeroin

AP please
JL

@David Ruddock burning time untill google releases new factory images...
- Eric Siedlecki
  
  Got my OTA.
  - Vlad
    
    5X or 6P?
    - Wayne Randall
      
      lol
    - jd1332
      
      6p
    - Vlad
      
      6P from the resolution
      - Leeroy Jenkins
        
        Dem Sherlock skillz
      - Artem Russakovskii
        
        And also from the part where it says "6P."
      - Vlad
        
        That's just 2 letters in a wall of text, it was more effective to open the image in a new tab and see it wasn't 1080p
    - Eric Siedlecki
      
      6P
  - 2×4
    
    50mb for a major update? haha
    - Eric Siedlecki
      
      Was on the beta.
      - 2×4
        
        ah! fair enough
    - Anthony Castanza
      
      If you were on Marshmallow the update is over a gig.
      - 2×4
        
        that's what I expected to see!
  - Peter N. Bravato
    
    Same here on my N6P. Nothing looks or feels different from the last Dev Preview. Also didn't see Assistant there, or the new boot animation.
    - Peter N. Bravato
  - Islam Kanunnikoff
    
    Got too.
  - Rob Blaich
    
    Ditto!
  - Justin W
    
    Got mine too :D
- ShahinTr
  
  Got my OTA, UK on 6P running on EE network.
John Doe

💩
- ltredbeard
  
  I regret clicking see more....
  - CD RW
    
    i clicked because of you
  - wuafri
    
    dude must have been Mc donalds.
  - Đức Thành
    
    I regret not listening to this comment
- George
  
  please put a spoiler tag on this
- Rob Blaich
  
  Holy crap!
cooldude5500

*assistant
It's a 2 line article and you still make mistakes lol
- David Ruddock
  
  listen this was late breaking news DO YOU THINK I HAD TIME FOR THIS (I did, oops)
JSo

But can I haz now?
Artem Russakovskii

Shitpost.
- Neel
  
  Literal shitpost
- Bluewall
  
  Next level shitpost
- Suicide_Note
  
  I'm looking forward to talking shit to Google Assistant.
  - Andy Roid
    
    I know it's a joke, but after the disaster with Microsoft's Tay autobot, Google probably will have tested this to make sure it can handle people sending racist and other vile comments to it
    - Suicide_Note
      
      Only one way to find out. I'm looking forward to bombarding Google Assistant with all forms of racial epithets. lol
      - fonix232
        
        Paragraphs from Mein Kampf maybe? Or just quote some neonazi movement leaders' speeches.
    - René Simonsen
      
      I'm pretty sure I read somewhere, that the problem with Tay, was that it had a "repeat after me" command. So people could just use that command and write whatever, to have the bot repeat it on twitter. Wasn't really a problem with the AI.
- Quint’s Sharking & Seashells
  
  I like to shit. Post it.
- LewisSD
  
  This post stinks
- Kleverson Royther
  
  Google Ass-istant... Makes sense.
Francois Roy

Trump: this photo of me was used without my authorisation
tim242

Seriously? I'm not one to bash a site for what they choose to post. But...seriously?
- Artem Russakovskii
  
  Totally serial.
  - tim242
    
    I'm just curious. What's up with the podcast? It's still not in RSS, and it's almost time for the next one.
blackroseMD1

What a nice poo article.
Veeman XDA

Stop! How many goddamn articles about Allo do you need to write? This is not journalism.
- Georg Eitler
  
  This is ANDROID POLICE *kicks someone down the pit*
- Liam Spradlin
  
  Sure, we'll stop writing for fun on our blog. Just wish I'd known sooner it wasn't journalism.
  - Veeman XDA
    
    Are you writing for fun or are you writing to get clicks for ad revenue? Because in the last day, you've posted 6 or 7 different articles about Allo and its features. Rather than providing one decent article with actual information, it's a bunch of separate shitposts.
    - OkieDokie
      
      1. Don't read articles you have no interest in or go to a different website for your android news needs.
      2. Stop shitcommenting on the said shitposts....
      3. Profit
      - Veeman XDA
        
        Saying just don't read the articles is such a cop out. Expecting quality content from such a large website with the ability to hire good writers is too much for you?
      - OkieDokie
        
        It's their website. They can post whatever the hell they want. It's not their job to live up to your expectations.
      - Veeman XDA
        
        And I have the right to criticize them for the things they post. Why are you getting so upset about my opinion?
      - OkieDokie
        
        I'm not upset. I have the right to criticize people who criticize a web post.
      - ScottColbert
        
        And we have the right to tell you that you're an asshole too.
      - sproc
        
        We also have the right to ignore you and show you the door. It's reeeeally easy too.
        
        Ooops, done.
      - yochanan
        
        Why are you getting so upset about people that have different opinions than your own?
      - MeggaMortY
        
        Most people who visit this site/follow this David dude are the same type of bunch anyway, just ignore them and move on.
    - Liam Spradlin
      
      Maybe there's a secret third option where we're writing to inform our audience about relevant information we have/find, and having a little fun along the way with a joke post like this one. The revenue that results from this process allows us to keep going.
      And saying that each Allo post doesn't contain "actual information" because they're separate is just kind of a non sequitur, so not sure how to help you there.
      - Veeman XDA
        
        Oh please, you're writing to make money. And you're spreading out the information into many articles to get more clicks and more ad revenue. This is literally no different from those Buzzfeed-esque websites that show 20 different slideshows to maximize clicks. At least you can admit that you're milking the hype for ad revenue. I can appreciate that from a business point of view.
- John Samuel αΩ
  
  Android Police is an Android enthusiast blog, not the New York Times.
- Jarrett Lennon Kaufman
  
  Protesting a shitty article with a crappy attitude seems ironic.
- ScottColbert
  
  Here's a tip, don't read them, then. Problem solved.
FernandoCole

@David Ruddock:disqus the assistant works if the system language is other than english, but you talks to the assistant in english?
Phoenix

some of us are really pissed about Nougat so don't shit-post us please :p
Lateef Alabi-Oki

I'm now reconsidering installing Allo. I've waited for the poo feature all my life.
Marko Simonovic

You got to be kidding...
Gytole

Android Poolice
sasidhar79

cut the tease and release the app
Cyan Thayn

Quality shitpost 👌
FrankJL

we need allo
Srujan

That's a shitty thing to say.
Mike

Usually trolls troll but writers trolling is confusing
- Abdullah Amir
  
  Even Android VP is trolling
surethom

When is Google assistance being released to all?? I'm fed up the OK Google not working or just not giving the answer you want.
Saloni Kogta

I am actually glad that Assistant won't be robotic.
One thing that I like about Siri is that it is really 'cool' and has a sense of humour. This kind of NLP really connects with the user and makes everything fun. This is one complain I have with Telegram's bots. They aren't freindly/funny enough.
- pfmiller
  
  NLP? The only NLP I know is neuro-linguistic programing.
  - roberto.elena
    
    Natural language processing.
    - pfmiller
      
      D'oh, that makes more sense :)
  - Saloni Kogta
    
    Lol
    
    Natural Language Processing
- roberto.elena
  
  Useful beats funny every day of the week in my rulebook.
  - sproc
    
    Thankfully the two aren't mutually exclusive...
    - roberto.elena
      
      Sure, but resources aren't limitless, so in a sense yes, they are partially exclusive. The more time and effort you devote to making an AI assistant have a fake personality, the less you have available to develop more useful features.
  - Saloni Kogta
    
    What if we get best of both the worlds?
    
    Assistant may actually be useful as well as funny.
    - roberto.elena
      
      Almost every "best of both worlds" situation is a myth, but one can dream :)
Indianajonze

well where is it already
David

She called the shit "poo".
JD

Ok ok. Good poo got it. Now ask it when are 2016 Nexus' launching
- yochanan
  
  "I'm afraid I can't answer that, Dave."
mike shwilly

I want to fill my mouth with that chocolate icecream
Sachin Divakar Pai

When will v get allo
Alex Gourenko

This makes me sad...
th30d0r

they are freaking serious about this nougat thing, right?

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