This. It forced itself into just about every Android smartphone, it overwrote every Google Home product, added itself to several Chromecast models, and even auto-downloaded itself into Chrome.

None of this growth is consentual or intentional, it's all just force feeding slop onto consumers who never asked for it, and had the rug pulled out from under them on products they were using.

I reposted this post from reddit and thought it was insane they framed forced app like some natural growth. Rage bait for sure

Fuck, man. I hate Gemini. The assistant actually worked on my watch. Stupid gemini thought I was talking to it when I was sending a message and just responded to my message instead of transcribing and sending it. Assistant didn't joke.

How much of it is just the fact its built into google search?

They're probably including any search result that returns Gemini output.

Cancer is a growth.

With Google, you’re the product, not the customer.

Exactly. It's not 1B users, it's 1B installs, and when it comes pre-installed or downloads itself then that number is completely meaningless.

I read that one company (forget which) is 70% of all purchases.

I believe, the right term to call that, is abuse of their dominance in one market to force their way into another...

came to say specifying users of anything in googles ecosystem does not make sense given everyone with a google account technically has access to it all. Then on top of it its integrated into the search. so anyone logged in and searching is likely counted as using it. heck its integrated into all kinds of things so.....