Google has also magnificently shit the bed with Gemini; their ads business is getting raked over the coals in court; they are a twice convicted monopolist; and are driving away top talent in droves.
It reminds me of the old joke:
Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good.
People have been talking about the downfall of Google and FB/Meta for years now and yet every single year both of them still grow, still print money, and run the most used products in the world by far.
Google's generative ai models probably are used more in a day than the rest combined. Google is a highly profitable business that still has never not grown YoY in its nearly 3 decade history.
In you mind you might think Google is going down, but in reality they have only been going up for nearly 3 decades now.
I used the newly released gemini live mode. I thought they were positioning it against chatgpt live mode. But the voice is hilariously unnatural. It makes you not want to talk to it at all. If this is the best google can do, they are years behind the competition.
It reminds me of the old joke:
Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good.