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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by majormajor on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:35PM (#35295920)
GamePass was a pretty big gamechanger. Looks like 2017. VSCode made a pretty big splash in its market too, from 2015. So not Google Search or Maps level, but solid, disruptive offerings that they've maintained in the last decade.

I'm struggling to even come up with any Google products in the post-Android timeframe that I use as much as those two...

And regardless, MS doesn't need to switch gears to compete with this even if you discount those. They're running out in the lead already. Question is if Google can still run.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by dataflow on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:43PM (#35296031)
If you're going back 8 years to VSCode as the example, then how about, say, the Google Pixel, which came out in 2016 IIUC? I imagine more people use Pixels than VSCode too.
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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by majormajor on Friday March 24, 2023 @06:06PM (#35296312)
I think it's fair to go back to anything since that list of "Search, Mail, Maps, Android" but I think you're comparing the Pixel to VSCode in the wrong way. Being less succesful but in a bigger pool of total users shouldn't win marks here.

What percentage of the smartphone market do you think uses the Pixel vs what percentage of the developer market uses VSCode, and what is the trend in that number?

A sibling comment to your seems dead but mentioned Google Photos, which is much more recent than I remembered (2015 apparently) and I think a pretty fair competitor in that market with iCloud Photos, Lightroom, and such.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by debatem1 on Friday March 24, 2023 @05:52PM (#35296156)
The Pixel line was rebranded from the Nexus phones, which started in 2010.
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