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You’re not seeing it because you’re not in the business of taking market from Google. Let’s take email. Yes, you can’t beat gmail for basic email inbox servic
by Sai_ 4y ago
You’re not seeing it because you’re not in the business of taking market from Google.
Let’s take email.
Yes, you can’t beat gmail for basic email inbox services but if you were to add a gpt-3 based assistant to your inbox which “learns” as you use your inbox, suddenly, your basic email service has a USP. Will it big enough to destroy gmail - maybe not on day 1 but regardless, an alternate now exists and will only get stronger.
Calendaring is as commodity as it gets and can be bolted on to literally anything else a competitor creates.
Document management and editing aka Google docs/drive could be an area where GPT3 doesn’t encroach but O365 is already there waiting to take your money and give you comparable service.
YouTube and other human generated content could be google’s moat but if they’re defending YouTube, it means the textual search market has been lost.
IMHO, Google is in trouble.
- eappleby 4y agoA lot of that sounds like add-ons to services rather than the services themselves, but it would be pretty great if gmail could predict how I would respond to every email and give me the option to send or edit (similar to grammarly).
- Sai_ 4y agothat with be pretty great, wouldn’t it!?! An AI which looks at your SENT emails, infers your style and drafts responses in that style for your approval. I can see that becoming interesting.
- woodruffw 4y agoI take your point, but I don't want any of these things. I happily pay Google $6 a month (plus some taxes) to give me dumb SMTP and IMAP access.
- Sai_ 4y agoNot trying to incite a flamewar but this reads like a “I want faster horses” type comment. People want a reliable SMTP/IMAP service only until they notice that others get more mileage out of their email inbox and reliability has become table stakes. There is a lot of longstanding pent up demand for a good email solution - hey.com 2021 launch comes to mind and I still remember joining Inbox’s waiting list (circa 2013-14?). Edit: s/reliability/dumb/g
- woodruffw 4y agoI would pay more for a better email solution! What I’m not sold on is ChatGPT getting me there.