Google Assistant Experiences Six-Fold Growth Due to JioPhone

At the third edition of the "Google for Bharat" issue final yr, Google appear a number of India specific products, including Google Assistant support for the pop Reliance JioPhone. The JioPhone was the world's first feature phone to back up Google Assistant and Google'south adventure seems to accept paid off.

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According to a recent web log post from the visitor, the Google Banana has seen a half dozen-fold growth in usage in the country over the last four weeks, all thank you to the JioPhone. In the blog postal service, Caesar Sengupta, VP Side by side Billion Users Team, wrote:

"Since we launched the Google Assistant on the starting time feature phone December, the Reliance JioPhones, usage of the Assistant in Republic of india has grown half dozen times over the past four weeks. This isn't just due to many semi-literate or illiterate users, but also the fact that typing is hard for people who never grew up with a calculator keyboard. The next billion users volition be the first to truly embrace ubiquitous computing, expecting apps to work in a natural mode rather than having to learn all the artificial commands that we did on PCs…The hereafter of the internet is in the hands of the next billion users- the latest generation of internet users come online on smartphones in places like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria."

With the aid of the Google Assistant, the next billion users are expected to adopt cutting-edge technology at a faster pace than previous generations who had to learn complex commands to make use of technology. Additionally, the adoption of native languages will also exist a crucial stride towards expanding internet admission.

As Sengupta points out, "In countries like Republic of india, the generation coming online now is more comfortable in their native language than in English language, and so language tin can be a big blocker to expanding Internet access".