Comment by dochtman

3 days ago

Makes sense that this is the only way to compete with Microsoft.

(See also how MS attacked Slack by including Teams for “free”.)

Why not compete with microsoft by not pushing AI? This allows costs to stay low while making customers happier.

  • Google already spent a lot of money on Gemini and now they have to justify it or the shareholders will get mad.

    • What? Google is absolutely not even remotely concerned with such things. Their bring-to-market strategy for products is basically "Spend billions a year on developing random things" and then "OK, it's been a year, cancel 1/2 of them".

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  • A lot of customers want these features (especially those people who only work in the browser because their job duties are vastly different from the average HN user)