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I was so ready to jump into a Pixel (long time iPhone user). I thought on-board voice recognition would be a game changer. This had to be the most lacklustre ev
by MattyMc 7y ago
I was so ready to jump into a Pixel (long time iPhone user). I thought on-board voice recognition would be a game changer. This had to be the most lacklustre event I've seen:
- Nothing on video.
- No details on the processor (or most hardware specs).
- Nothing on the forward-facing camera.
- Nothing on battery life.
It honestly felt like Google watched Apple's presentation and then cut 2/3 of what they had planned.
Moreover, and this is purely a marketing-spin thing, the event had no energy. There were some super cool demos, and they were received with pure silence from the crowd. It was very weird.
- Hamuko 7y agoMaybe they assumed that you had already read about all of those things from the months of leaks that lead the event.
- MattyMc 7y agoMaybe. I don't recall seeing leaks on picture/video specs or battery life. When you build an event like this, I think you put your best foot forward. Google did, it just wasn't terribly impressive IMO.
- dkonofalski 7y agoLet's be realistic, though... the type of thing that would be a game-changer and make a big buzz at an event like this just doesn't exist right now. Phones have gotten so advanced that the "next big thing" needs to be paradigm-shifting and completely redefining in order to get a sizable reaction. Everything else right now is just iterative.
- MattyMc 7y agoI really thought on-board voice would be a game changer. Not having to do the round-trip to the cloud to determine intent, and providing a conversational interface (i.e. "now send this to Pam") I thought would generate that buzz. It sure seemed to when Google announced that they had reduced this ML model to ~500mb so it could run locally. In contrast, Apple's A13 chip's contribution to extend battery power is incredibly impressive to me.