If you’ve ever heard the phrase “addition by subtraction,” you’ll understand Google’s latest move. This week, Google announced that it plans to eliminate more than a dozen features from Google Assistant in the coming weeks. Google Assistant VP Duke Dukellis explained in a blog post that the team is “prioritizing the experiences you love and investing in the underlying technology to make them even better” while axing support for “underutilized features.”
Google explains that starting on January 26, if you attempt to use any of these features, you will receive a notification letting you know that it won’t be available after a certain date.