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Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by adventured »

capableweb wrote: post #11
gumballindie wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is a factory and software is manufacturing. They want to sell their goods to managers not engineers. Makes sense if you think about it. Most of what google does is yesterday’s tech, the web isn’t new and they aren’t making bank by selling stuff to software devs. We want free stuff, preferably open source. There’s so much of it anyway that it has zero value. They might babble a bit about how ai can replace work…

All of that makes sense for Google in general, but Google I/O used to be explicitly a developer conference, with everything targeting developers, which no longer seems true.

Representative of the shift from creation to extraction.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by Jun8 »

To add one more data point to the general sentiment in the comments: in 2011 I was so bummed that I couldn’t get a ticket to I/O that year, I wanted to start an alternate conference called I/O Error “for the rest of us” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2192827 !

Ahh, the naïveté of the young age (I was in my early forties at that time, mind you). I was in technology development then, now moved to PdM side. Google products no longer interest me from either the tech or biz side.

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Post by r0m4n0 »

I find it interesting the sentiment in the comments... Yesterday we had an Apple post where everyone was losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad (which in my opinion as a Software Engineer is the most boring thing I’ve had to read all week). Today we have probably a massive lineup of a bunch of new AI features to be announced for products most of us use on the regular, or could use as devs, and 90% of the comments are about how boring it will be.

Not sure what to make of it but you would think the HN crowd would be slightly more interested.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by neodymiumphish »

I'm betting they'll be integrating Bard into smartphones and Chrome ASAP. The way Bing got added into SwiftKey is pretty awesome, but being able to interact with Bard the same way phones currently interact with the gAssistant would be a huge boon for usability and increasing interaction with it, assuming that's something Google wants to increase.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by majora2007 »

baridbelmedar wrote: post #17

I know I'm going against the grain here, but I'm actually looking forward to the event and plan to watch it :)

Me too, plus what's coming with their new phones and most importantly, how they are adding more and more AI into their cameras. I'm exclusively a Pixel user, so it's super important to me.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by GaggiX »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #57
TimCTRL wrote: post #20

I for one benefited so much from Google Developer Groups while at University. Google made sure we learned how to build Android Apps, and consume API's and services like Maps, Firebase, etc. Overall, I gained a good understanding of how systems work, Thanks Google! --From Uganda

Google did not do this out of the goodness of their heart. They did it to lock you in with Firebase, Maps, etc. And believe me, the moment they start charging you for it, you quickly realize why Google is not a company to give an ounce of trust to.

I guess you can easily transfer the knowledge to other libraries, APIs, etc. I think it is just a net benefit.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by dlisboa »

ohgodplsno wrote: post #57
TimCTRL wrote: post #20

I for one benefited so much from Google Developer Groups while at University. Google made sure we learned how to build Android Apps, and consume API's and services like Maps, Firebase, etc. Overall, I gained a good understanding of how systems work, Thanks Google! --From Uganda

Google did not do this out of the goodness of their heart. They did it to lock you in with Firebase, Maps, etc. And believe me, the moment they start charging you for it, you quickly realize why Google is not a company to give an ounce of trust to.

Eh, I think you’re underselling the value of “free” stuff. Even if it has an ulterior motive, giving free access to computing resources allows someone to learn concepts and even ship things that would otherwise be impossible.

None of these companies are altruistic and everyone knows it, but by not charging upfront it gives possibilities for millions of developers who don’t have US$ 50/month to spend on something (students, emerging economies, career changers, etc).

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by clnq »

gjvc wrote: post #49
clnq wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Around 2013 is when I/Os became less about showing technological progress and more about corporate talk. Examples of I/O topics before 2013: Android, Maps API, App Engine (cloud), Chrome, AJAX for their APIs, real-time collaboration/Wave, Google TV (early predecessor to Android TV), Chromebooks, Chrome Web Store, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Glass, Gmail updates, Google+, YouTube updates. Most I/O topics after 2…

RIP Google Wave, we hardly knew ya.

It was kept alive internally by Apache for a while later — https://incubator.apache.org/projects/wave.html. Very interesting why it failed as a project in two separate companies. There was an explosion of team collaboration software in the 2010s and yet these companies couldn't make their product compete.

Re: Google I/O 2023

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Post by mmsnberbar66 »

maxfurman wrote: post #28

Am I the only one excited for this conference? My Pixel 4A can't hold a charge any more and I've been holding out for the 7A.

yesss not many more small Android phones out there

either Google comes up with something nice or I'm getting a used iPhone SE

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