Any news on Google I/O?

wow today turned out to be a bigger day then what i expected, this tv thing is huge!
just like android 3 years ago, most of u fallowed it like i did during its build up, i told everyone it would be huge and the g1 finally came out, some dumb people tried it and said it sucked! haha i laughed at them for being so ignorant and not knowing it was JORDAN as a rookie, and ill say this again
today is one of the biggest days for tech and the take over of google, when they announce the ISP it will really b over
 
Agreed on this. Till now many people don't believe in android's power. And stick to an expensive (and useless) iPhone. talking about india here..
 
Word!!!! this TV thing is only the begining...imagin the intergration when they push their tablet...something to ponder...an app tightly intergrated with GTv an Dish network to let you stream your DVR conted via 4g/WiFi to your google table ANYWHERE...sickness!!! ad that jsut one possiablity
 
This is where your wrong.. Android is slowly taking over, and many many people are starting to believe in Android's power. I have 5 people in the last 2 weeks that have upgraded to Android phones at my work alone. in 2 weeks. and one was a 3GS user and one was the old original iphone and he hated it.

there's more than 10 of us with Android phones, and we have 4 droid's 1 incredible, and 2 N1's, a few G1's and MT3G's.. and this isn't "just" my work. if you look in the news or talkback section. you'll see the latest news that Google Android is now AHEAD of iphones in the market share. and selling over 30,000 a DAY. really. android is taking over. and I love it. RIM needs to watch out.
 
Dont get me wrong, im a HUGH android supporter, but lets be real here for a sec...android caught up as much as it did IMO for the following reasones

1- Apple is about to push a new phone and OS, people are waiting for that and they WILL catch up within the coming months.
2- The Verizon ad campagin Droid Does is the best ive seen in years. (My gurl who has a 3gs wants an android now beacuause of those commericials and not becuase of me)
3-The real smartphone users are getting wiser and now understand how important TRUE multi-tasking is. Lets face it Jobs POS that hes trying to pass off as muti-tasking will fool some of the people but not everyone and then you'll get more iphone user jumping ship &
4- Hands down we have the most killer devices out and in the pipeline

So while i agree Android has come a LONG way in 3 short years ...long and short of its is we are not there yet.
Granted we are now currently running side by side with Apple but come June that nitrous (iphone 4g) will kick in for apple and the will pull ahead.

But the great thing is that Google no longer has to play catch up...come this fall when consumers see Gtv and what is avail to them via Android that well be more than enuff for Android to shine like it should...the BIG thing for apple is still its 2 best sellers iphone and now the ipad, lets face it that will be the new standard as the iphone was when it dropped for tablets....this is race of innovation and the company that can excute it the best will garnish the most sales...but taking over is a bit overly zelous, i personally feel it will ALWAYS be Google and Apple gunning for that number one spot...and sometime it will be Mac and sometimes its will be big G...i for one im gald...jsut meas we as consumer get to reap the benefits. just my 0.02.
 
I'm all for fair competition, but Google hasn't been playing catch up with Apple. It's the other way around. Apple would not have put in their partial multi-tasking if Android didn't come around. They also wouldn't have quickly dropped in copy/paste, etc. Saying we just now caught up to the iPhone would be in my mind lying to ourselves. We had more features when the G1 was dropped with Android 1.x

What Google has been lacking is the polish that makes Android as intriguing as the iPhone. They really helped to fix that with the 2.0 release, and are steadily improving. Part of the problem was the slow hardware, and another being the slow Dalvik VM (which JIT will be improving for us). Now we should start seeing more graphical polish.

As far as the iPhone is concerned, I don't see the 4G as much of a threat. It looks like a Nokia device, with a new version of the iPhone OS on top. It's far superior to older iPhone devices, but I wouldn't put it on par with the Evo or newer Nexus/Desire/etc devices.

As far as what else the iPhone has over Android -- is game/media developers. That'll be turned around with the much improved VM (thanks to JIT again), and also the native NDK calls. I think in the next year you'll see Android further making a dent in the iPhone sales. As soon as Android has a similar app count, the iPhone will have really no backbone.
 
Agreed, with the rate that apps are being push to the market by the end of the year it be close if not pass 100k...esp with the new api's that 2.2 now has and with closer app management for devs to see whats really affecting their apps.
 
Yes.. yes yes. all great points.

I do agree many are waiting for the iPhone HD, but what I think is lots of those people waiting around jumped ship and got a Droid, and many are going after the incredible (it's new commercial is solid also) and now the Evo. People don't wanna wait. lots of people are I'm sure, and all the apple fans, but many have been lost to Android lately.

Bring Flash, and I bet Verizon will start adding that into the commercials, with that comes Adobe Air soon and that will be the last straw in making iphone comparable (if not better) games. We have 1 Ghz CPU's and even better graphics coming with things like the Galaxy S by samsung.

This will be a great few months. I've been saying that for a while, but by the end of summer the Iphone HD will be here, 2.2 will be here for us. As well as flash, air will follow it. and the race will be very crazy. In the end I don't want Either to get to far ahead because competition in the end benefits all of us.. and if you guys didn't see it. Gameloft's number one games like Asphalt, and soon to come to android NOVA and a few others are number one iphone sellers. We'll have those soon.

Yay for Android. Good things to come!
 
To add a little to the conversation, I find it interesting how Google and Apple have some similar thoughts on technology but also have some very contrasting opinions and core ideals. We could dive into this deeper and have an entire discussion regarding this topic, but I do not want to wake the fanboys and forum trolls. lol.

One thing I find particularly interesting about the contrasting approaches that Google and Apple take are the development styles they use. Android uses more of an iterative development style with frequent release schedules, more familiar to the open-source community. Apple, on the other hand, uses a more "traditional" development style which puts emphasis on "milestone" releases.

There is no "right" or "wrong" approach at development but there are loads of opinions and philosophies about development styles. Google's approach has the potential to allow for additional features to be added more frequently. This results in multiple "small" versions in a shorter amount of time (Android 2.0, 2.01, 2.1, 2.2... etc). If you compare this to Apple, in the same amount of time they may only have one major OS release (iPhone OS 3, iPhone OS 4, etc).
 
Very true. You also have to look at it from how the platforms are built. Android runs on Linux, and a lot of the popular distro's (Ubuntu specifically) run on similar 6 month cycles. However the more corporate distro's (Redhat) follow longer interations.

I know in the past Google has stated (if I have time I'll look up the article) that they wished to slow down the release cycles to focus on improving the overall OS. I'm sure that would be 1yr cycles.

For Apple the iPhone's OS has to line up with the normal baseline development cycles for OS X. It also lines them up perfectly for product launches (unlike Google's cycle, since it's free-for-all). So, for them it's perfect.

It really comes down to ideals. Google right now is trying to pull all the stops and beat out possible competition. I'm sure in a year or so they might wish to slow down the major/minor releases.

I've worked at companies which have the 1 year plan, the 1 month plan, and the 1 week plan (5 releases a month, 4 minors and 1 major).

I'll tell you the 1 week release plan was insanity, as well as 1 month. 6 months was great, but for massive changes the 1 year plan was ideal (for both the testing and release schedules).
 
*raises both hands in the air*

Ship jumper here! Didn't even grab a life vest. I ordered a Verizon Droid Incredible yesterday. I've had it with the crappy iPhone 3G and AT&T's lousy network. I've always been an open source user, but for a time the iPhone was the best phone out there. Now, we have choices!
 
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