Google Gemini Apps Platform: The Author Who Predicted Both Outcomes

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

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   Vera BullockGoogle has launched a Connected Apps Platform that lets businesses bring their apps into Gemini and Search, and my guest says he saw it coming.

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   Vera BullockCornelius Abioye wrote Everything Is an App Now. Cornelius, you called this?

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

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   Vera BullockGoogle says developers can build once and reach users across Search and the Gemini app.

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   Vera BullockOver fifty apps are already in Gemini, including Peloton and Experian.

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

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   Vera BullockBut I've read your other book, Search Eats Everything, and it says apps would disappear.

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

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   Vera BullockSo you predicted both.

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

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    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.

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    Vera BullockThe platform is in public preview for U. S. developers on a waitlist, and Google hasn't said when it opens wider.

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    Vera BullockDid either book predict the waitlist?

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

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    Vera BullockTwo 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.