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Usually that just launches the Google Assistant on most new phones.

It’s literally just a convention, a design choice. It doesn’t really mean anything.

not a protocol issue

It is. There’s no way for search engines to join all the servers and index them all, thus there’s no way to efficiently find information on them without already being there.

math moment

it uses more pixels per inch

Even if that’s the case that would save time since you have to drive back home to unbox the new phone, and in the meantime it could update.

No way. I don’t need someone to frantically scan my items while I barely manage to bag them in time.