Rio Akasaka

Product Manager on Gemini in Google Maps Navigation. Personal views, not endorsements or official commentary.

[Rio Akasaka @Rio]

Super proud of the work that went into building this. I learned so much about how to integrate AI thoughtfully and make it truly helpful and delightful. Can't wait to see how you use Gemini on your next Google Maps journey.
https://t.co/KifkwC8iCZ

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For some odd reason I though Slate was actual journalism but @mjs_DC got the Supreme Court vote wrong so I guess that's it then https://t.co/oe2IVmph00

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@GergelyOrosz @Pragmatic_Eng Annnd... WhatsApp is down. How ironic.

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Go back home, Google, you're drunk

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So @RobinhoodApp Strategies basically didn’t beat the S&P500 🤣

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Makes you wonder if product manager at @Workday actually uses their product

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Does anyone really believe these sorts of spammy notifications actually work? @googlephotos

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$SPCE dropping is a big warning sign for me

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This is what Google Photos could be doing but no instead they want to sell me my wardrobe and stickers instead

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Exemplo de uso da função Reframe do app Fotos no iOS 27.

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And when God made Switzerland He was very happy. And so He said, I’ve added so much, what shall I now take away? And He looked at the door to the petty Human’s house, and found His answer

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WTF this is why you can never trust Meta https://t.co/JSMNHB6rSa

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@sflorimm Geocities

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Tried to edit the photo and the app crashes

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Google Photos makes me so sad. It was such a good product when it came out. Now every time I use the product I feel like it lost the plot on what the critical user journeys it was supposed to support. I don’t want stickers. I don’t want creative re-editing of my photos.

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Tried saving. Nowhere in Google Photos. Tried downloading. Nowhere in Apple Photos. I ended up creating a new album with the shared photo. Now it tells me the “album is syncing”. Like WTF

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Try rotating a photo uploaded by a friend to a shared album on iOS. It’s been 10 minutes and I still haven’t figured it out.

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@ok6ixx As a JP person there's a few things that I'd add:

* I empathize deeply with the feeling of stress when you lose something, and the delight in finding it again. So we want that to happen to someone else, even if we never know them.
* It just feels icky to use someone else's stuff

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Obsessed with my new @Seestar_astro S30 Pro especially in the darker skies of Colorado

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Someone is probably being paged right now

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This was why we invented the internet

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

The laws of physics

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@DJ_CURFEW You lost me at millon dollar bands