On Tuesday, Google held its Pixel event showcase, where the company showed off its new Pixel 9 line of phones, Gemini AI and some other new tech. Keke Palmer and Jimmy Butler showed up, and those were just about all the highlights for me from an otherwise sleep-inducing event.
Yeah, I heard that the "Gemini era is real," that Google built "the most advanced tech stack in the cloud," and that the Tensor G4 chip is the company's "fastest and most efficient yet," and if it weren't for the pot of coffee coursing through my veins, I probably would've fallen asleep. I just don't think Google showed a lot that's significantly new or useful. The whole event could've been a news release posted online and emailed out.
I accept technology should break some botheration bodies battle with. So back Google's Rick Osterloh aggregate that affect back discussing Gemini, my aerial perked up a bit. Maybe I'd assuredly be aflame about abundant AI.
"I accept people's skepticism," Osterloh said. "There accept been so abounding promises, so abounding coming-Soons and not abundant absolute apple helpfulness back it comes to AI, which is why today we're accepting real."
Alas, the affair never got real. Gemini's helpfulness was attenuate back it took a dump on date during an alive audience and back it was asked to actualize a conditioning from a claimed trainer's email shouldn't a claimed trainer already do that.
Gemini was additionally asked to actualize a K-pop playlist, which would be accessible if we didn't already accept Spotify playlists, alleged things like Dance K-Pop Mix and K-Pop Rising. And back Google's Jenny Blackburn asked Gemini to appear up with activities to do with her nieces and nephews, I couldn't advice but admiration why she wasn't allurement her nieces and nephews (or their parents) what they capital to do. So, while Osterloh said Google would accommodate a "why" for AI, the presentation larboard me activity unimpressed, and the catechism still haunts me.
Even the Pixel 9 buzz band advertisement apathetic me. It was focused on how the phones accommodate Gemini, the blueprint about the phones, and the new Tensor dent in the phones. That's all fine, but it articulates at times like the presenters were aloof account statistics you'd acquisition in a device's online description.
Google's Brian Rakowski said the Pixel 9 phones appear with Gemini Nano with multimodality which Rakowski said makes them three times added able and adult than accessories launched a few months ago and that the phones can accomplish up to 45 tokens per second. But what does any of that beggarly to addition like my mom or dad who aloof wants their accessory to work? Google said the Pixel 9 phones are added abiding and accept added anamnesis than antecedent generations, which feels like the important being and all you charge to say on that.
The Pixel Buds Pro 2 earbuds, additionally accustomed at the event, accept best array activity and bigger babble cancellation, Google said. That's cool, but is there annihilation groundbreaking here? Not really. Aloof accepted incremental improvements.
The advertisement about the Pixel Watch 3 affection that calls emergency casework back the watch doesn't ascertain a baby was the alone time during the accomplished accident back I thought, "Oh, that's absolutely helpful." It could save lives, and I'm blessed it's there and achievement bodies use it.
Otherwise, I was apathetic throughout Google's Pixel event, because annihilation acquainted cogent or decidedly useful. There was no standout artefact or account that I'd alarm a bold changer, like the aboriginal iPhone. And maybe that's because tech companies accept assertively, they charge to accept big showcases all the time. It's accomplished to not accept these huge events, and I brainstorm companies could additionally save money by not accepting them afterwards all, how abundant did they pay Palmer and Butler to appearance up on stage?
I'm all for tech events, but unless they're allusive to the boilerplate user alfresco of the tech industry, or the new articles are article wholly new and never apparent before, aloof accelerate out an email announcement, please.
