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

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.

Related:

Google I/O

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196020

Gemini Omni

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196609

Google changes its search box

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570