Well, both the web1.0 and the smartphones were major inflection points in technological development. I argue that the GenAI is not. Steve Jobs did not need to shove the AppStore down anybodys throat, the way Gemini and other crap are being shoved right now. The growth happened organically and exponentially, because everyone instantly saw value in those products. It happened through early adopters and the late majority. Here we have neither. Where are the thousands, well even hundreds of applications that the end users actually want to use? Your mum, based on your description fits more into the category of laggards, and that category never determines anything about a product/technology impact.
> the way Gemini and other crap are being shoved right now. The growth happened organically and exponentially, because everyone instantly saw value in those products.
Nobody shoved Gemini to me - chatGPT sucked and I was curious if Sonnet was the best around there for coding stuff and found Gemini to be excellent. As a side note, it also generates excellent question papers - chatGPT is dog shit compared to that.
Well, someone did to me as well as millions of other Google Workspace users. So you're not using google workspace, good for you! Despite turning the Gemini off in administrative settings, myself and millions of other users get daily "nudges" to consider Gemini summarising our e-mails or do some other superfluous bullshit. And the alternatives are few and between, at least if I want a shot at my email actually being delivered and not sorted into spam.
