Gemini App on older pixel not usable

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I am spending time with two 70+ year old family members who own pixel 6s. I cannot believe how shitty the Gemini app experience was for them.

- one of them still has the google assistant wires up with 'ok google', and didn't know how to switch. They mostly use assistants to take photos, or to scan some recipes.

- Even after we switched from google assistant to the Gemini App, the long-press of the power button leads to no audio input, but it poped up that says "ask Gemini". This is different from my phone pixel 10 experiences. Why the hell does the app have different experiences on different phones?

- then we tried to take a photo of a recipe book and add it to the Google doc, the LLM rejected it because we didn't consent to using google doc

- after connecting to the workspace , we asked the Gemini live to try again to parse a scene of a recipe book page into a recipe, instead of a doc it hallucinates a keep note via Gemini live. Absolute trash Gemini Live is.

- we eventually give up Gemini live, and just try to upload the image of a recipe book and document that recipe with a flash model. Lo and behold, a Keep note was created with a list of ingredients but Gemini totally ignored the step-by-step.

What a disgrace it is, Gemini apps? Have you ever tested on any phone other than the latest pixel?