Comment by skilled

fake benchmarks, fake stitched together videos, disingenuous charts, no developer API on launch, announcements stuffed with marketing fluff.

As soon as I saw that opening paragraph from Sundar and how it was written I knew that Gemini is going to be a steaming pile of shit.

They should have watched the GPT-4 announcement from OpenAI again. That demo Greg Brockman did with converting a sketch on a piece of paper to a CodePen from a Discord channel, with all the error correcting and whatnot, is how you launch a product that's appealing to users.

TechCrunch, Twitter and some other sites (including HN i guess) are already piling on to this and by Monday things will go back to how they were and Google will have to go back to the drawing board to figure out another way to relaunch Gemini in the future.