I think Gemini could be a great product, if they didn't decide to stuff it down my throat at every possible occasion.

Recent example: on my e-reader, tapping a word I don't now and clicking "Translate" pulls up the possible translations from a dictionary, a local file just a couple of megabytes big, near instantly, on this tiny processor.

Doing the same on my Android phone starts a Gemini-chat with the prompt "Translate the word x into y". Takes forever, internet access needed, results vary, burns who knows who much energy.

Why? Just why?

That kind of shoving down is pretty bad, I agree.

I neither use Android devices nor Google Search, so the only Gemini thing I see is the Gemini chat interface.

I understand the pain, though.

So that some team at Google can hit their OKRs for user adoption and get promoted.