Google I/O Keynote
On May 28, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. ET, Google will hold the keynote at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Expect news on all of its platforms: the web, Android, Chrome, and more. Fast Company's Harry McCracken, John Brownlee, and Jared Newman will be there to cover it in person and will share developments as they happen.
Did you miss the event? You can watch the keynote video here and read a quick recap of they keynote's highlights here.
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Press at IO is liveblogging using an unusually rich variety of devices. PC laptops, Macs, Surfaces (Surfii?), Chromebooks, iPads, and more.
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I've said this before, but I think the rule when you see another Surface user is, you lock eyes for just a moment, then do a little nod.
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Update on my running smartwatch tally: One person in the row behind me with a Moto 360. Guy next to him with an Apple Watch (and rare lime green Sport band).
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Do you give the same nod to Surface Pro and Surface RT users alike?
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@JaredNewman: I have to admit, I've been finding the Surface a more attractive option lately.
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Jared, I'm wearing a Withings Activité. Does that count? If so, add it to your tally.
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Jared and I are still both wearing our review-unit Pebble Times. Mine isn't particularly helping me liveblog, although it's useful for seeing who's calling you and ignoring it.
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I'd love to know the grand totals that Google, Apple, and Microsoft spend on their respective developer conferences here. The wraparound video screens Google set up do not look like they came cheap.
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So it seems that Google is not being very good about keeping their stuff under wraps.
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Never hurts to accidentally leak stuff when it's too late to do any damage, and early enough to intrigue.
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I notice on the live stream that all the people in attendance who are waving at the camera are being a bit more restrained than your average sports fan standing in view of the camera.
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The camera shot looks as if it is being shot by a drone. Don't suppose anyone's flying one in there are they?
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Getting one final game of Pong before the keynote starts, look like.
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I wonder if BXC, who just pulled ahead in Pong final, is the New York Times' Brian X. Chen.
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When we worked together, he beat me so many times at high-stakes Pong that it wasn't even funny.
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For the record, it was a last-minute tie. They both got plush Android thingies, it looked like.
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I'm guessing Google is going to be building data centers in the Andromeda Galaxy?
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Some sort of 360 degree video is playing about the Hubble Deep Field. It feels like Google could cut these things shorter if they didn't literally start them with a video tour of the known universe.
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After Pong, I was hoping this was a particularly ambitious reboot of Asteroids.
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I wish we could star each other's entires, Harry. Beautiful.
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This is just the countdown to the tiebreaker round of Pong.
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This is like the world's most expensive Google Doodle.
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Senior Vice President of Products Sundar Pichai just took the stage.
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Here' Sundar Pichai, Google's most visible top executive.
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One thing to look for, possibly during the keynote, is a new live-action VR short from Justin Lin, the director of four of the The Fast and the Furious movies. He's co-founded a production company, Bullitt along with the former COO of Caviar and and with the Russo brothers, who co-directed Captain America: Winter Soldier and several upcoming Marvel films. They’re creating content for advertisers of any sort—including a new, live action short that will debut this week at Google I/O. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046634/how-hollywood-is-learning-to-tell-stories-in-virtual-reality
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Sundar Pichai took the stage at I/O 2015.
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He's welcoming livestream viewers from around the world.
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Pichai is recapping Google products from the past, starting with search, and explaining why the company built them, and pointing out that they all have huge user bases.
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More than 1 billion users in Google Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Android, Chrome.
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Gmail was actually Google's least used product, according to their stats. Everything else was 1 billion plus. Gmail was only 900 million.
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Probably relevant, from yesterday's Mary Meeker presentation at the Code Conference: In 2014, Internet usage grew 8%, but that’s down from 10% in 2013, and 11% in 2012. Similarly, while there are now 2.1 billion smartphones in use, growth in 2014 of 23% was down from 27% in 2013, and 65% in 2012.
Internet Whisperer Mary Meeker On The Trends Driving Our Virtual Existence
Fast CompanyThe Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner lays it out in 197 slides. -
They just showed beautiful animation showing how Android's devices have propagated over the globe. A billion colored dots, swirling together into a geoscape of color.
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Visualization of all Android phones in the world flooding the room. Different colors represent different types of phones.
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Every time I see those Android characters, I wonder if Google worked with the South Park guys.
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Pichai notes 7 Android Wear watches, 35 brands supporting Android Auto.
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Android Auto has 35 car manufacturers on board. Then again, CarPlay had a lot of auto companies on board, and nearly none shipped anything. The auto market's a hard nut to crack.
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Android TV: User base has "doubled in the last three months alone." Doubled from ... what?
