Like what's going on inside Google, it's getting stupidly political and infighty. If someone tries to build a comprehensive LLM that touches on gmail, youtube, docs, sheets etc, it's going to be an uphill battle.
None of them would work on-device, all would leak your data into the training set.
It showed you contextual cards based on your upcoming trips/appointments/traveling patterns. E.g. Any tube delays on your way home from work. How early you should leave to catch your flight.
This alongside Google Inbox was among the best and most "futuristic" products.
I was glad to see today Apple implementing something similar to both of these.
No wonder they killed it.
There'd be constant sabotage.
Lots of middle management power groups that would prevent a cohesive top down vision from easily being adopted.
Make no mistake, Google is Enterprise.
The more I spend time in mid-large companies, the more I'm amazed that that Apple somehow managed to avoid releasing three different messaging apps that do the same thing.