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Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps

Over fifty apps, including Adobe, Peloton and Experian, already sit inside Gemini, and the new developer platform is in public preview on a U.S. waitlist.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGoogle has launched a Connected Apps Platform that lets businesses bring their apps into Gemini and Search, and my guest says he saw it coming.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCornelius Abioye wrote Everything Is an App Now. Cornelius, you called this?

  3. Cornelius AbioyeYes, page forty. The apps move into the search box. Google just did that. Ding.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorGoogle says developers can build once and reach users across Search and the Gemini app.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOver fifty apps are already in Gemini, including Peloton and Experian.

  6. Cornelius AbioyePeloton, Experian. I listed those. In the original draft, I listed them twice. Ding.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBut I've read your other book, Search Eats Everything, and it says apps would disappear.

  8. Cornelius AbioyeRight. That's the other book. In that one, this exact announcement is the end of apps. Ding.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo you predicted both.

  10. Cornelius AbioyeI predicted the weather, Vera. Whatever happens outside, I said it.

  11. Cornelius AbioyeCalm, the meditation app, is joining on Gemini and Search, and I said that in chapter four. In the original draft, chapter nine. Ding.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe platform is in public preview for U. S. developers on a waitlist, and Google hasn't said when it opens wider.

  13. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDid either book predict the waitlist?

  14. Cornelius AbioyeThe waitlist is in the second edition. In the original draft, there was no list, only hope. Ding, ding.

  15. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo books, two opposite forecasts, one waitlist. I'd call that a bold, simply thorough two-for-one, and I'm told the second edition ships first.

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