How do they plan on gaining any market share in AI space? I think subconsciously I avoided Bard because I had little faith anything beyond search or email will live more than a couple years.
1. "does not work" is wildly subjective. Google Reader was tremendously awesome. It "worked" for a lot of people.
2. Even when something doesn't work, they don't just shut it; they shut down one project, and start two competing ones with slightly overlapping feature sets. And now you get to choose which one you want to eventually migrate away from when they inevitably shut it down, as well, in favor of another set of competing internal projects.
I think they shut things down when it doesn't work for Google, and that really doesn't give me an incentive to use any Google product. I'm still on gmail, and I'm betting that they won't dare shut that down - can you imagine? - but I absolutely will not invest any time or money into anything else they offer.
Oh no, no no no. There is only one subject that matters at Google nowadays, and it is "how much does this thing help us sell ads...?"
Mail? Great. Maps? Fabulous. Reader, aka a bunch of nerds talking to each other about geeky subjects? ...Nah.
I've been using the same podcast app for probably 10+ years and have zero complaints. Not having to waste time migrating every few years is a better than any new feature Google is adding.