I honestly did not watch the thing, but this headline got a laugh out of me (:

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?

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.

> 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