<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ar7hur</author><text>+1 I came here to write this comment word for word. The speed of IBM-ization of Google is astounding.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endtime</author><text>&amp;gt; This Google Account isn’t supported&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more&lt;p&gt;Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher&amp;#x2F; Google Apps&amp;#x2F;GSuite&amp;#x2F;Google Workspace user.</text></item><item><author>tauntz</author><text>&amp;gt; Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!&lt;p&gt;Sigh. Google never learns.&lt;p&gt;By the time they add support for using this in my country, there&amp;#x27;s no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same playbook with every US-only launch:&lt;p&gt;1. get everybody hyped up&lt;p&gt;2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a &amp;quot;launch&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;open beta&amp;quot; or whatever&lt;p&gt;3. tell the rest of the world that &amp;quot;lol, by &amp;quot;avialable&amp;quot; we mean US-only&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Open means &amp;quot;open for people with US IP addresses only&amp;quot;&amp;quot; etc.&lt;p&gt;4. Wait till competitors have launched global-from-the-start alternatives&lt;p&gt;5. Open up the service globally&lt;p&gt;6. ...&lt;p&gt;7. Shut down the service because there&amp;#x27;s no uptake
 (surprised_pikachu.jpg)&lt;p&gt;Rinse and repeat.&lt;p&gt;Self inflicted wounds and all that..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard waitlist</title><url>https://bard.google.com/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mclightning</author><text>Same here, and the account switcher doesn&amp;#x27;t work.</text><parent_chain><item><author>endtime</author><text>&amp;gt; This Google Account isn’t supported&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more&lt;p&gt;Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher&amp;#x2F; Google Apps&amp;#x2F;GSuite&amp;#x2F;Google Workspace user.</text></item><item><author>tauntz</author><text>&amp;gt; Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!&lt;p&gt;Sigh. Google never learns.&lt;p&gt;By the time they add support for using this in my country, there&amp;#x27;s no reason for me to use it anymore as competitors have already swept in.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same playbook with every US-only launch:&lt;p&gt;1. get everybody hyped up&lt;p&gt;2. make it accessible to only a minor subset of people but advertise it as a &amp;quot;launch&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;open beta&amp;quot; or whatever&lt;p&gt;3. tell the rest of the world that &amp;quot;lol, by &amp;quot;avialable&amp;quot; we mean US-only&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Open means &amp;quot;open for people with US IP addresses only&amp;quot;&amp;quot; etc.&lt;p&gt;4. Wait till competitors have launched global-from-the-start alternatives&lt;p&gt;5. Open up the service globally&lt;p&gt;6. ...&lt;p&gt;7. Shut down the service because there&amp;#x27;s no uptake
 (surprised_pikachu.jpg)&lt;p&gt;Rinse and repeat.&lt;p&gt;Self inflicted wounds and all that..</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google Bard waitlist</title><url>https://bard.google.com/</url></story>