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Do we need Virtual Assistant?


It is something which I stress over and over again. I live in Bangladesh, a small country in Asia. So, it is only natural for tech companies to not think about us when launching new services.


Virtual Assistants are taking over the world. Assistants like Google Assistant, Siri, Alexa and Cortana are said to be super helpful in your day to day life. YouTube reviewers adore them and recommend them for your smart home. What the reviewers don't take into account is that all those helpful assistants only properly work in the US. Here in Bangladesh, all these assistants can do is tell the weather and call or text contacts. These smart and intelligent assistants don't even understand our accents. Hence the second feature for call or texting is a hit and miss.

Hence, I have uninstalled the Google app from my phone. I do not require to allow Google to spy on me, only so that assistant can tell me the weather. Google and other companies are in simple words ripping us off. We keep those apps installed in hopes that it might work, but they will never do.

Because the world is not a fair place. And the little ones will always be picked on. So, I believe it will be in our best interest to only use services which offer us feature parity or at least are actual services, instead of a mechanism to steal sell and earn a boatload of money at zero cost and with ease!

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