> If you put software into the wild - you have released it. Even by that definition Google never released it. You needed a 3rd party app to access the feature,

> If you put software into the wild - you have released it. Even by that definition Google never released it. You needed a 3rd party app to access the feature, Google's software alone was not enough. Google didn't fail here, they flat out never released it. Or perhaps you could argue that they failed by not releasing it (or something similar), but that's different story.