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  • Hacker News
  • Whole Google is very odd corporation.
  • New product added to the Google Graveyard
  • Nearly a million users? Bah, small fish…
  • Considering a lot (all?) of AI is currently being sold at a loss, I wonder if all that outpouring of interest is exactly the reason why they're changing course, as it would've otherwise been too expensive to offer.

    It could've also just not been ready for prime time and couldn't actually live up to its promises, so they decided that shelving it was less of a reputational impact than releasing a defective product.

  • Giogle sunsetting has reached its final form...
  • This is such a bizarre decision that I’m curious who in the org chart made the call.
  • Why do you care who over why they did that?
  • Probably someone who realized "build your own apps" means "empowering users to build competing apps that don't send marketing telemetry back to google"