<story><title>Google adds a guitar tuner to Search</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/google-guitar-tuner-search-113540630.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoying, until one day it &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; me to watch a 30 second ad before tuning my guitar. The &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; thing that I enjoyed to get away from computers and their....bother.&lt;p&gt;That day I went out and bought 4...FOUR snark clip on tuners, and another Korg. I deleted that stupid app and have not looked back.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back to sucky software apps replacing fully functional, well-designed single-purpose devices. There&amp;#x27;s just too much pull to make them into g****mn ad platforms.&lt;p&gt;Google search also has a crappy metronome. It sucks. I use my analog metronome all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sriram_malhar</author><text>You are dissing a product that you didn&amp;#x27;t pay money for, and comparing it unfavorably to one that you did. How is that fair.&lt;p&gt;There are metronome and tuner apps that are way more pleasant and functional than any hardware product, if you could shell out just a few bucks (&amp;lt; $10). You also have fewer batteries to manage.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google adds a guitar tuner to Search</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/google-guitar-tuner-search-113540630.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>titzer</author><text>About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoying, until one day it &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; me to watch a 30 second ad before tuning my guitar. The &lt;i&gt;one&lt;/i&gt; thing that I enjoyed to get away from computers and their....bother.&lt;p&gt;That day I went out and bought 4...FOUR snark clip on tuners, and another Korg. I deleted that stupid app and have not looked back.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to go back to sucky software apps replacing fully functional, well-designed single-purpose devices. There&amp;#x27;s just too much pull to make them into g****mn ad platforms.&lt;p&gt;Google search also has a crappy metronome. It sucks. I use my analog metronome all the time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rglullis</author><text>F-droid shows at least a dozen different apps, none of them with ads. Even if the open source apps were not a perfect fit for your case, you could have taken 10% of the money you spent and made everyone&amp;#x27;s life better.</text></comment>