How high is the bar? Sure, most of this stuff is just improvement on existing things, and it's true that if you are not interested in AI then there wasn't something for you there, but are we expecting them to announce a revolutionary product each I/O conference?

Views got deprecated, GC improvements, R8 improvements, AI Studio can generate apps and integrate with Android Studio (back to my agents and IDEs remark from a few days ago), OpenXR improvements including Godot and Unreal, new CLI tooling for AI integrations, Android apps can expose AI tools, some OpenJDK related improvements....

And I am not even following the actual talks.

The crazy thing to me is that so many of the things Google is doing would seem to be a slam-dunk obvious thing for Apple to lead on. For example, the context aware cursor. What an amazing idea -- a computer that understands your intents intuitively, at such a basic level. That's the core idea that fueled Apple decades ago, but apparently not so much anymore.

I did find that this was a pretty big struggle of a presentation. It's hard for me to get excited about a lot of AI tech stuff. It's unclear what it does and I'd rather do it in an open source harness where there is control and observability, not some far off product I don't own running in some else's data center.

Amateurs. Apple would never allow something like this to happen.

Oh, wait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-CPfqZgWTk

It'll be funny when WWDC happens and Apple has even less of substance to say.

Google I/O

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196020

Gemini Omni

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196609

Google changes its search box

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570