Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders

(twitter.com)

37 points | by BlueBerry2001 8 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • voakbasda 3 hours ago

    Nearly a million users? Bah, small fish…

    • Nextgrid an hour ago

      Considering a lot (all?) of AI is currently being sold at a loss, I wonder if all that outpouring of interest is exactly the reason why they're changing course, as it would've otherwise been too expensive to offer.

      It could've also just not been ready for prime time and couldn't actually live up to its promises, so they decided that shelving it was less of a reputational impact than releasing a defective product.

  • MichaelZuo 3 hours ago

    This is such a bizarre decision that I’m curious who in the org chart made the call.

    • cromka 38 minutes ago

      Why do you care who over why they did that?

    • hadlock an hour ago

      Probably someone who realized "build your own apps" means "empowering users to build competing apps that don't send marketing telemetry back to google"