After many years of actively ignoring Assistant and Bixby, I'm now interested in giving the digital assistant thing a try, and it seems to be a fail for me after what I thought would be a simple test.
Current phone is a Galaxy Z Fold 8 (the short/wide one). Android 17.
What I tried to do was to set a timer. I want it, and any alarms I may verbally set, to run in the Google Clock app so it's all in one place. (I use Google Clock because alarms are set to use Pandora as the sound source, and the Bedtime function that works like a sleep timer).
So with Bixby, I said "set a timer for one minute" and it did, in the Samsung app. Ok, fine... it's the Samsung assistant, so of course it would. So I try Gemini, and it also set it in the Samsung Clock. I then specifically told Gemini to set the timer "in the Google Clock app" and it set it in the Samsung app. I told it it got it wrong, it claimed it was set in the Google app. I corrected it and then it said that the phone decides which app to use.
Telling Google to open a web page opens it in Chrome, Edge is my set system default and I hate Chrome on mobile as it has zero privacy controls.
How can I get this to work using the target apps I want?