My first thought: in 2030 when I’m calling grandma with this, I will first need ...

silentsea90 · on May 18, 2021

We're witnessing magical tech and innovation, and here we are back to making fun of signing in, ads and cynicism about Google shutting down projects.

leokennis · on May 19, 2021

We're witnessing a magical tech demo here. If Google actually releases it and hinder it with ads, sign in walls etc., it's not magical anymore. If they then cancel it two years later, it doesn't even exist anymore.

We can pretend that this will be Google's magical fairytale product that will not be impacted by the above, but who are we kidding?

meibo · on May 18, 2021

Especially because most of Google's productivity apps don't even have ads. I think it's just Gmail on mobile at the moment.

hu3 · on May 19, 2021

I thought Gmail "read" my emails to finetune ads but today it told me they don't: https://i.imgur.com/SHSOSJ7.png

booleandilemma · on May 18, 2021

Google will have definitely discontinued this project by then of course :)