Google aren’t interested in <1bn USD businesses, so it’s hard for them to build anything new as it’s pretty guaranteed to be smaller than that at first. The business equivalent of the danger of a comfortable salaried job.
They're more than willing to expand their moat around AI even if that means multiple unprofitable business for years.
It was supposed to be a BlackBerry/Blackjack killer at the time.
And then the iPhone was revealed and Google immediately changed Android’s direction to become a touch OS.
When was it, 2006? Almost 20 years ago, back when the company was young.
This doesn’t strike me as zero relevance.
Android and mobile are none of these things.