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I closed it after 20 minutes or so. I gotta hope that if I were at the helm of a multi billion dollar company that had been operating efficiently for years, I

I closed it after 20 minutes or so. I gotta hope that if I were at the helm of a multi billion dollar company that had been operating efficiently for years, I would take MUCH bigger risks than Google. The projects in this keynote were incredibly boring, and some of them borderline useless. Leave that stuff for smaller companies to tackle, Google. Take on big problems.

urda 8y ago
Google doesn't like hard wins anymore, they haven't in a long time. If it isn't easy then it's not worth doing for them. Sometimes even when it is easy, they kill the product off within two years.
datalist 8y ago
Still watching it but I second your sentiment. To be honest after the conferences in the past three, four years I did not have the highest expectations in the first place, but so far that was - again - amazingly underwhelming. As you said, Google should announce game changers and not getting woos for an application that reorients a scanned sheet of paper.
- jacksmith21006 8y ago
  Disagree. So many just incredible things coming from Google. The internet is a buzz on the Duplex demo but just one thing.
eitally 8y ago
Google has gotten leery of talking about the actual moonshots because of the extremely negative press/dialogue that results.
xedeon 8y ago
Personally, it seems that during the past few years, Google has become so bloated and inefficient that innovation has slowed to a crawl. It's to the point that they are now essentially just like Microsoft during the Steve Ballmer days. They need a visionary leader that can lead and inspire the hundreds of smart people they have. Not to mention the fact how everyone always jokes about how long a product will last after being announced before they kill it off. Their strategy seems to be scattershot, rather than having a sense of direction. I'm curious to see how their internal roadmap looks like.
- jacksmith21006 8y ago
  Inefficient and bloated? They are putting out a ton of stuff. Have YouTube TV and an excellent product but just one thing. They appear to be doing an entirely new OS and UI. Flutter is pretty impressive tech. Beyond Corp is pretty revolutionary and can see it being the norm. But so many more. The TPU 3.0. Google Home Max is a great product as well as Google WiFi. K8s is on fire and growing like crazy. They have cars driving around without a safety driver. So many other things. What in the world are you talking about? Did you mean some other company?
  - jacksmith21006 8y ago
    I am curious who has done more than Google in the last year? Thanks in advance!
mbrumlow 8y ago
Well I was agreeing, but now the self driving cars have been shown...
TY 8y ago
I'm sorry but I disagree. What I see here is a massive multibillion dollar company undergoing a tremendous technological transformation in front of our eyes. Machine Learning is being embedded into most of their products to make those products increasingly capable and useful that is not easy for other companies to replicate. Those products are becoming personal and learn about you to the point that they will know more about you than you... I realize that this can lead to a scary future, but lots of useful things do. These capabilities might look underwhelming but they are simply mind blowing given type of problems being solved. More importantly, this technology and infrastructure are being put in the hands of developers outside of Google, so more fascinating things are yet to come.

urda 8y ago

Google doesn't like hard wins anymore, they haven't in a long time. If it isn't easy then it's not worth doing for them. Sometimes even when it is easy, they kill the product off within two years.

datalist 8y ago

Still watching it but I second your sentiment. To be honest after the conferences in the past three, four years I did not have the highest expectations in the first place, but so far that was - again - amazingly underwhelming. As you said, Google should announce game changers and not getting woos for an application that reorients a scanned sheet of paper.

jacksmith21006 8y ago
Disagree. So many just incredible things coming from Google. The internet is a buzz on the Duplex demo but just one thing.

eitally 8y ago

Google has gotten leery of talking about the actual moonshots because of the extremely negative press/dialogue that results.

xedeon 8y ago

Personally, it seems that during the past few years, Google has become so bloated and inefficient that innovation has slowed to a crawl. It's to the point that they are now essentially just like Microsoft during the Steve Ballmer days. They need a visionary leader that can lead and inspire the hundreds of smart people they have. Not to mention the fact how everyone always jokes about how long a product will last after being announced before they kill it off. Their strategy seems to be scattershot, rather than having a sense of direction. I'm curious to see how their internal roadmap looks like.

jacksmith21006 8y ago
Inefficient and bloated? They are putting out a ton of stuff. Have YouTube TV and an excellent product but just one thing. They appear to be doing an entirely new OS and UI. Flutter is pretty impressive tech. Beyond Corp is pretty revolutionary and can see it being the norm. But so many more. The TPU 3.0. Google Home Max is a great product as well as Google WiFi. K8s is on fire and growing like crazy. They have cars driving around without a safety driver. So many other things. What in the world are you talking about? Did you mean some other company?
- jacksmith21006 8y ago
  I am curious who has done more than Google in the last year? Thanks in advance!

mbrumlow 8y ago

Well I was agreeing, but now the self driving cars have been shown...

TY 8y ago

I'm sorry but I disagree. What I see here is a massive multibillion dollar company undergoing a tremendous technological transformation in front of our eyes. Machine Learning is being embedded into most of their products to make those products increasingly capable and useful that is not easy for other companies to replicate. Those products are becoming personal and learn about you to the point that they will know more about you than you... I realize that this can lead to a scary future, but lots of useful things do. These capabilities might look underwhelming but they are simply mind blowing given type of problems being solved. More importantly, this technology and infrastructure are being put in the hands of developers outside of Google, so more fascinating things are yet to come.