alt.hn

8/1/2026 at 6:55:13 PM

Google cancels AI Studio app after 800k preorders

 https://twitter.com/GoogleAIStudio/status/2083274575769473092

by BlueBerry2001

8/2/2026 at 2:28:40 AM

Giogle sunsetting has reached its final form...

by lubujackson

8/1/2026 at 11:34:30 PM

Nearly a million users? Bah, small fish…

by voakbasda

8/2/2026 at 12:59:34 AM

Considering a lot (all?) of AI is currently being sold at a loss, I wonder if all that outpouring of interest is exactly the reason why they're changing course, as it would've otherwise been too expensive to offer.

It could've also just not been ready for prime time and couldn't actually live up to its promises, so they decided that shelving it was less of a reputational impact than releasing a defective product.

by Nextgrid

8/1/2026 at 11:19:31 PM

This is such a bizarre decision that I’m curious who in the org chart made the call.

by MichaelZuo

8/2/2026 at 1:01:24 AM

Probably someone who realized "build your own apps" means "empowering users to build competing apps that don't send marketing telemetry back to google"

by hadlock

8/2/2026 at 5:05:44 AM

I have a saying about google products - they are not allowed to exist if they cannot capture data in a way that is unique to that specific application.

by sixothree

8/2/2026 at 1:50:07 AM

Why do you care who over why they did that?

by cromka

8/2/2026 at 3:32:13 AM

New product added to the Google Graveyard

by prtmnth

8/2/2026 at 8:06:23 AM

Whole Google is very odd corporation.

by persephonex