Honestly, I preferred the days when developer conferences were for DEVELOPERS and not consumers. Announce APIs, DevTools, demo new stuff developers can use. Ba

Honestly, I preferred the days when developer conferences were for DEVELOPERS and not consumers. Announce APIs, DevTools, demo new stuff developers can use. Back when I/O was "Google Developer Day" and used to be mostly Web-tech, I found it way more interesting, more of a hackers conference. The modern conferences are more about commerce, even on the developer side, and not simply about the Joy of Cool Stuff and Cool Hacks. These days Apple and Google use developer conferences as pseudo-consumer product soft launches. IMHO, consumer end user launches should do done at consumer conferences. Still, compared to Apple, Google's keynotes still contain more stuff of interest to developers like PaLM, LaMDA models, and a change to play with them. Apple's WWDC keynotes are usually so dumbed down, their graphs don't even have numbers of axis labels.