Google folds 800,000 app signups into Gemini

Google AI Studio will fold its mobile build experience into Gemini instead of shipping a standalone app, despite roughly 800,000 preorders across iOS and Android. The AI Studio team disclosed the preorder count and product change, while The Verge reports that the web platform will remain; Google had opened mobile preregistration at I/O in May. Builders tracking the 60% surge in app releases driven by vibe coding should file the reversal as a distribution signal: even substantial preregistration may not justify another destination when the same creation loop can ride inside an assistant people already open.