Comment by PittleyDunkin

3 days ago

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

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jsheard  3 days ago

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

  • bbarnett  3 days ago

    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".

    • PittleyDunkin  3 days ago

      > 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".

      This evidently doesn't apply to their chatbot efforts.

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verdverm  3 days ago

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)

  • daveguy  3 days ago

    Apparently they don't want it if Google had to force the feature on everyone to raise revenue.

    • verdverm  3 days ago

      This is likely a misreading from personal preference

      Getting these features for $2 instead of $20 likely appeals to a lot of people. It's 10% the price and may only be one of several reasons for the price increase (inflation is likely another)