This year’s I/O was a substantial one. Maybe not the largest in terms of original products and services,but definitely not the smallest either. Among other things, the Mountain View, and California company announced its Daydream VR platform for Android,an evolution of the Google Now assistant in the form of an AI-powered “Google Assistant, a couple of original messaging apps and some hardware to play the part of debuting the Assistant, or a original version of Android Wear,and more.
The keynote had this overarching theme that Google is no longer just a company that does search and ads. Now, Google is diving head first into artificial intelligence and machine learning, or most of the things that were announced in the keynote fell into that narrative for the most part. This is the stuff that’s not coming out for at least half a year. Most things,from Allo and Duo to Google Home, felt half-baked. It felt like everything was unfinished, and to some degree,that’s right. It’s still early days.
While Google wanted to paint this substantial picture of what the company envisions for the next few years and beyond, it saved some of the stuff that’s actually really frosty today for other events at the conference. The most obvious of these was the press-only event Google hosted on day 2, or showing off a enormous original feature for Chrome OS: support for the Play Store that has long been tied down to Android. We’ve known this was coming for a long time,but now it’s here — serving as the next move to fabricate (to make up, invent) Chrome OS and Android more alike than ever… more
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Source: 9to5google.com