Google's Nokia moment with Gemini AI
developers got no patience.
Back in the days when Nokia phones had crazy market share and Apple started challenging Nokia’s numero uno position, Nokia would announce crazy phones (with impressive features ranging from much better touch support to better cameras etc)…with a launch timeline that was, in best case 5 months away.
While Apple would announce with a ‘much nearer’ timeline, Nokia took its own time.
5 months is a long time.
But that 5 months of waiting time has been compressed to a few days: maybe a day or two, especially in the world of generative AI and given how badly developers are confused about which API to use in development/production etc etc.
As you must have known by now, Google announced Gemini AI and while it sounds interesting, there is no developer version as of now.
Developers will have to wait for 1 week to play with Gemini.
One week is a loooong time in today’s world. A lot can happen in 1 week: the guy called Sam Altman was fired by OpenAI, hired by MS, Re-hired by OpenAI in less than a week’s time.
Think of it s a rant, but as a team building AtomicIdeas.AI (download it to get smarter each day across range of topics by spending just 5 mins per day), we play with several AI APIs and I am pretty sure that by the time Gemini reaches our hands, the bar had been shifted by OpenAI.
What are you expecting from Google’s Gemini?