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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by lmm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:56PM (#38564457)
The faster javascript runtime was what made it a success IMO.
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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by acheron on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:37AM (#38569529)
The leveraging their search monopoly to push it and paying other software to sneak it into installs is what made it a success.
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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by lmm on Sunday December 10, 2023 @05:27PM (#38595698)
Nah. Safari did plenty of monopoly abuse and sneaking into installs, but still never got big on Windows. At some point the user experience does matter.
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