Google I/O

[ChazUK]

900,000,000 activations.

EDIT: Has IO killed TheVerge?

48 Billion app installs too. Damn!

 

[tjl3]

What watch do you think he is wearing?

Pebble.

Can we all agree that this style (and Apple's) of keynote addresses are INFINITELY better than the garbage Samsung threw out there for the GS4 release?

Cool graphics for the activations announcement.

Yup, a bit more technical and informative.

 

[gmanist1000]

900,000,000 activations.

EDIT: Has IO killed TheVerge?

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48 Billion app installs too. Damn!

No problems on my side.

 

[Explicitic]

Anybody else see the "fortunately fu*****" comment? Nice, Google.

 

[jrswizzle]

Anybody else see the "fortunately fu*****" comment? Nice, Google.

Is that what everyone laughed about?

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Synced notifications.....that needs to happen on iOS as well.

 

[ChazUK]

Synced notifications.....that needs to happen on iOS as well.

Yes! I'd love that.

I can't even get my iMessages to sync though.

 

[jrswizzle]

Yes! I'd love that.

I can't even get my iMessages to sync though.

Ya - now they're talking about their "Gamecenter".

Funny how we talk about how iOS is behind.....not in everything

Hopefully the cloud save works more fluidly than on iOS though.....half the time my games don't translate from my iPhone to iPad.

A lot of this falls on devs though.....the apis are there, devs just need to utilize them better.

 

[Shadow Puppy]

Synced notifications.....that needs to happen on iOS as well.

Agreed. Not having to dismiss the same notifications on different devices is very convenient.

 

[Explicitic]

Google Play Gaming service is cross-platform! Although, I don't game on my phone....

 

[ChazUK]

Surprised to see the Play Game Services available on iOS too. Nice!

 

[dojoman]

I see so many Gl******* audiences.

 

[gmanist1000]

Is that what everyone laughed about?

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Synced notifications.....that needs to happen on iOS as well.

Very much so. Sooooo annoying.

 

[jrswizzle]

Womp womp....

things not going quite so smoothly.

 

[ChazUK]

First cock up of the show! LOL.

 

[MRU]

ouch..... poor old riptide demo fail.

 

[gmanist1000]

So, who gets fired for those networking problems?

 

[MRU]

First cock up of the show! LOL.

That's what I said in a naughty show I once saw in a backstreet in Soho!!!

 

[ChazUK]

The devs are loving the new IDE. Hopefully Android development will be easier this way.

 

[MRU]

Man, now a teleprompter failure. Hugo's not having a good morning.

Did they not have rehearsals for this thing ?

 

[gmanist1000]

The devs are loving the new IDE. Hopefully Android development will be easier this way.

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This is actually an awesome new addition.

 

[rtomyj]

Looks like their playing catch up.
Cloud sync
Game Center

The only interesting thing so far is unified notifications. I love it on iOS with iMessage (needs to be expanded).

 

[ChazUK]

Did they not have rehearsals for this thing ?

He's winging it! Damn that must be uncomfortable.

 

[MRU]

He's winging it! Damn that must be uncomfortable.

In fairness even winging it - it can't ever get as disastrous as the Samsung S4 launch event....

 

[ChazUK]

in fairness even winging it - it can't ever get as disastrous as the samsung s4 launch event.... :d

needs moar sexism!

 

[MRU]

needs moar sexism!

Don't worry they've got an API for that