Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC(appleinsider.com)
26 pointsby frizlab2 hours ago7 comments
  • pingouan hour ago
    They announced Gemini 3.5, an AI centered search approach, Gemini Spark, Gemini Omni, smart glasses, and more, and somehow that accounts to "having nothing to say"?

    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?

    • drcongo42 minutes ago
      The HN thread about I/O racked up a grand total of 183 points. It never fares as well as WWDC on here, but that struck me as especially low. I think your list of things they announced is pretty telling - like, oh great, more bloody AI shit.
  • orthodonticjakean hour ago
    I'm trapped in Apple's ecosystem and I've been incredibly envious of the things Google is doing. So many neat features I'd love to use, but I'm still not quite ready to switch.

    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.

  • lacewingan hour ago
    It's a bit funny how tribal it is: the author really just wanted to say that Google I/O was boring and cite some supporting Reddit opinions for validation, but because they're publishing in an Apple-themed periodical, every other sentence ends with "...unlike Apple, which does this perfectly".

    Google was never good at showmanship. They compensated by being able to regularly announce cool / surprising tech. This time around, they didn't have much, except "we put LLMs in more of the existing workflows", which was entirely predictable and didn't really showcase any new magic.

  • jvolkmanan hour ago
    > There's a supercut of the event on YouTube which solely shows every mention of the term "AI." It's about a minute long and by the end you want to cover your ears to shut out this sound and fury.

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

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

  • frizlab2 hours ago
    I honestly did not watch the thing, but this headline got a laugh out of me (:
  • dividendflowan hour ago
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