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Let's be honest. Is there any Google product that isn't "a demo" at this point? When I updated to Android 10 last year, on a fully stock Pixel, it broke on me. I had to wipe the data for the MediaStore content provider to regain the ability to use anything related to media files. And that's me who figured it out by knowing what to look for and reading logs because I've been making Android apps since 2011, the average user would've had no idea. After paying $700 for a phone, I do kinda feel entitled for it to not break after a system update.

As far as the new products go, I'm just a bit tired that everything actually interesting and useful that Google puts out remains US-only for about forever. That's it.

On a second thought, the search and the ad network probably aren't demos.

> this is an OPPORTUNITY for someone else to do this

So is there an open API for that? I doubt.



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