Such a novel concept, having things meet your quality standards before cramming them into every corner of every device, app, and OS you produce.

I think it’s much more likely that they tried really hard to do AI stuff but their corporate culture wasn’t compatible with “ship slop, it’s fine” and ended up falling behind because their stuff was only just as good as the other guys.

For what it’s worth, they did fire/“retire” their AI guy and they’ll be using Gemini models now.