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> That moat is trivially circumvented by lighting a larger pile of money and less trivially by lighting the pile more efficently.

Google with all its money and smart engineers was not able to build a simple chat application.

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But with their internal progression structure they can build and cancel eight mediocre chat apps.

What do you mean? Gemini app is available on IOS, Android and on the web (as AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/).

It is not very good though.

Gemini is pretty good, And it does one thing way better than most other AI models, when I hold down my phone's home button it's available right away

That's a shame on Google, Apple, Samsung, etc. Voice and other activation methods should be open to any app that claims to be an assistant. An ugly way of "gatekeeping".

It's a joke about how Google has released/cancelled/renamed many messenging apps.

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