Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice

Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by robertlagrant on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:14AM (#38566937)

That's true, although Pixel seems good as a successor, but the big thing Microsoft did was use what they had to get into new markets.

Procuring Azure is a good option for lots of companies because most companies' IT staff know AD and Microsoft in general, and Microsoft's cloud offers them a way to use the same (well, not the same, but it's too late by then) tools to manage their company IT.

I'm not disagreeing with its success, but I do think they had a much simpler journey, as to my understanding a lot of it involved cloudifying their locked-in enterprise customers, rather than diversifying into new markets.

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Re:Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice by hot_gril on Sunday December 10, 2023 @12:08PM (#38593018)

What frustrates me about Google is they fumbled in a lot of markets that aren't far from their established ones. Zoom ate their lunch with video chat, and now MS Teams seems to be beating GSuite. Maybe YouTube -> social networking would've been doable, but they botched it with G+. The old Google was only good at facing new technical challenges, not making products. Now that's changing, and I think at least they can make Google Cloud work.

I also don't see anything big Google has leveraged Android for, besides Pixel, which is actually more to cement Android. At least I have decent amount of faith in them pulling that off.

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