Google knows that this is a developer conference right? I feel like I'm at CES. I don't care about any of their apps unless there is some really cool integrations I can do. Talk API's or this is just noise.
Next step in Allo: just automatically pick the best "smart reply" for me, add "smart questions" and we can leave both sides of the conversation to the bots. "Have your AI assistant contact my AI assistant to work out the details" :)
[Google announces Home, an Echo competitor]<p>This seems cool. Echo is pretty neat but this space could use some competition.<p>["available later this year"]<p>Ah, so it's doomed. Those four words are a death sentence, particularly from Google's hardware department.
Just noticed. They all wear Android smartwatches...<p>I don't know single person in Europe who uses his Android smartwatch after couple of months!
Kind of cringey, feels like I'm watching a Sillicon Valley scene.<p>Machine learning to one-hit reply "Cute dog"? Billions of dollars and these features seem pretty boring.
In my humble opinion Google isn't solving new problems anymore. They created great company thanks to solving very important problem: people couldn't find right things on the Internet.<p>Now it is all about ads and reducing number of taps required to order a pizza. The keynote is just boring.
Duo -- video calling, competitor to Skype? A "knock-knock" feature -- you see a preview of the caller before picking. Uses quic protocol, built by webrtc team, claims seamless transition when connections switch from wifi to cellular. Graceful degradation if network quality goes down.<p>Allo -- video chat, e2e encryption and expiring messages. That looks good but unless someone else audits, I'll be suspicious.<p>Android N -- Vulkan for games, that looks promising. New jit compiler, 75% faster app install speed, 50% reduction in size. File-based encryption. Seamless updates -- phone downloads system image in background. Then on next boot it switches to new image. Also split screen to see multiple windows at the same time. Those are some nice new features.
The coolest part of the whole keynote (till now) has been developer tools.<p>Android Studio 2.2 . Improvements to the compilers, many X improvements to instant run, automatic test generation, C++ debugging and constrained layout editors.<p>firebase - very cool.<p>This is huge...
Constraint layouts with a visual editor. While a significant part of the iOS developer community doesn't like to work that way apparently there's not better solution out there?
I've not watched the keynote yet but I'm hopeful the announcement of Home will also come with opening up of Google Now's voice search similar to Alexa. I really want to like Google Now but it's just so limited at the moment - let me control Spotify, Hue bulbs, and my TV with it please!
The best way to follow this keynote is through @pinboard twitter account [1]. It distorts the disruption.<p>[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/pinboard" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pinboard</a>
Android Security:<p>What happened to Google? I remember back in the days when Apple said that they will reviewed all the apps before they appear on the App Stores. Now it looks reviewing apps before release is not cool anymore.
New Communication apps: New Messaging app Allo. It can add emojis, whisper or shout and has smart replies like Inbox. It can also reply to images. And has the Google smart assistant.
Oh, no, Google Deflate has started...<p>I watched the Goggle I/O event for 10 minutes. First, they talked about how they copied Siri.<p>And now they are talking about how they copied Amazon Echo.<p>Unlimited resources. Wasted...