Link CopyTwitterLinkedinWhatsappGoogle Drops AI Studio App So Gemini Can Build SoftwareEight hundred thousand people queued for an app Google then pulled a day before launch. The reason says more about where software is heading than the app ever would have.Google spent May persuading people to sign up for an app-building app, and spent 31 July telling them to forget it. About 800,000 had pre-registered across Google Play and the App Store, from more than 168 countries, and the listings came down around a day before the expected launch. Google says the same capability will arrive inside the Gemini app instead, on a timeline it has kept open. The software you need should be assembled while you talk, rather than downloaded before you start.What Google cancelledAbout The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
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