Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its games business and pivot to enterprise AI. Why blow it all up now?
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12 Comments
Wow
great
Good. Maybe this Korean company can finally fix the software. That app is garbage.
Sad this video was made with AI too…
sad
We were lab rats playing and collecting data for niantic 😠what is this
what is this slop of a video
thats pretty dope!
Why is the narration so robotic?
They literally made it to collect data for their LGM AI lol. In Q Tel CIA operation from the start just like google maps and facebook
Pokémon GO sold to Scopely alongside with other popular games like Pikmin Bloom.
😡😡😡