I asked Bixby to look at my calendar and tell me when I had my last appointment and I specifically stated the name of the appointment as it appears on my calendar. Instead, Bixby conducted a Google search.
I asked Gemini to do the same, and not only did it tell me about my very last appointment, it also told me the dates of all my previous appointments.
I expected the new Bixby to be able to do this.
Situations like this make it difficult to justify using Bixby for anything other than setting reminders.
I was one of the initial beta testers for Bixby when it first arrived in 2017 and at the time it was quite useful, but Google Assistant and now Gemini are so significantly more advanced that my Bixby usage has been reduced to only setting reminders or adjusting on device settings like turning on or off the mobile hotspot.
Bixby is fantastic for controlling on-device settings. I have found that the majority of tech reviewers merely write it off because they haven't spent time finding out what it's good at. Then we have folks who parrot those ignorant points and suggest that Bixby is useless, and that is false.
The purpose of being a beta tester is to test the new features and provide Samsung with feedback so they can improve. So, that is what I'm doing.
