Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC

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pingou•about 4 hours ago

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?

lacewing•about 3 hours ago

No one is surprised that Google is putting AI in more places. Yes, the bar is high: announcing a new video generation tool or another personal agent doesn't sound amazing because both Google and its competitors already have that tech in some shape or form.

And smart glasses are something that every other company has been toying with for a long time. Google Glass, Meta Smart Glasses, Snapchat Spectacles, etc. Maybe they nail it this time around, but you've heard that announcement a dozen times before, so it's hard to go "OMG THIS IS BIG".

greatgib•about 2 hours ago

Gemini 3.5 is an increment that doesn't Worth an event and mostly on par with what competitors are doing with a huge price increase.

The rest kind of already exists, died and is reborn multiple times already. Like the smart glasses.

And a lot of it is not even wanted by consumers. It is more Google trying to shove his ai to try to have user adopt it. Like Microsoft with Copilot.

drcongo•about 4 hours ago

The HN thread about I/O racked up a grand total of 183 points. It never fares as well as WWDC on here, but that struck me as especially low. I think your list of things they announced is pretty telling - like, oh great, more bloody AI shit.

orionsbelt•34 minutes ago

Google has terrible communication skills and aesthetic taste. Even if their new products are technically good, and you are interested in this space, it's almost impossible to follow, e.g.: https://x.com/nathanclark_/status/2056947354654355849?s=20

pjmlp•about 1 hour ago

Actually it had plenty to say about Android development and I no longer follow it as I used to.

Views got deprecated, GC improvements, R8 improvements, AI Studio can generate apps and integrate with Android Studio (back to my agents and IDEs remark from a few days ago), OpenXR improvements including Godot and Unreal, new CLI tooling for AI integrations, Android apps can expose AI tools, some OpenJDK related improvements....

And I am not even following the actual talks.

orthodonticjake•about 4 hours ago

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.

spwa4•44 minutes ago

Agreed.

jvolkman•about 4 hours ago

> 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

nozzlegear•about 2 hours ago

I don't think 5G is deeply unpopular like AI is though. Maybe that was the article's point.

izacus•about 1 hour ago

I've actually seen more real life protests against 5G than against AI.

notnullorvoid•about 1 hour ago

Wow that was way more Apple simping than I expected.

It'll be funny when WWDC happens and Apple has even less of substance to say.

kid_cubi•8 minutes ago

> Wow that was way more Apple simping than I expected. The article is literally coming from a blog called "apple insider"

jauntywundrkind•about 3 hours ago

They're finally shipping the sl2619 embedded AI board, which is cool. https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/20/coralboard-features-...

I did find that this was a pretty big struggle of a presentation. It's hard for me to get excited about a lot of AI tech stuff. It's unclear what it does and I'd rather do it in an open source harness where there is control and observability, not some far off product I don't own running in some else's data center.

frizlab•about 5 hours ago

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

ChrisArchitect•about 4 hours ago

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