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I don't know how to introduce myself you usual introduction if we all say I don't know it just feels weird if we're all gonna say like from android authority okay okay three times in a row hey it's Josh Bazar from Android 30 what's going on everybody and I'm joined by lon when I'm as I'm sure all of you know and some of you may know Chris Carlin one of our writers and also has been on a couple of videos on the YouTube channel so we're talking google i/o it's officially the first day and it's at the shoreline amphitheater as you can see we're outside for the first time at a google i/o uh how's it feel so far girls it's been good it's very laid back for sure any outdoor situation is pretty nice sun's out snorts a hug it's good it's not too hot it's hot are you talking about I'm freaking sweating over here just notice how does yet these canteens full of water yeah all right well we're gonna go ahead and get right to it it's the i/o keynote reaction now there were a lot of rhea we're reacting but there were a lot of announcements rather during the keynote and we're going to go down the line a little bit by the way just so you guys know stay tuned to the android authority channel stay tuned right here for footage of all the cool stuff all the stuff behind us that you may or may not be able to see because the shoreline amphitheater was converted into a big playground for all of the people attending i oh so all of that will be coming in the next couple of days and yeah but for now we're just going to talk about the keynote so thoughts on the Kino you guys well I mean there was a lot of there was a lot of announcements for sure they came pretty thick and fast but in terms of the big sort of ground shaking game changes they didn't really seem to be so many this year not as many as in previous years I mean there were some big stuff you know Android VR daydream via google home these are pretty big but they're not something they didn't seem very far out of left field other things we pretty much expected and in many ways new were coming yeah I think there were some like Krista there's some interesting products but a lot of it we sort of expected like you said earlier when we were talking as a lot of a lot of it's very reactionary and I sort of do you agree with that but then we also had a lot of very a lot of polishing to android so nothing really too surprising because we saw a lot of it in the Alpha releases but still good to see them show it off and sort of go a little bit more in depth with what we saw with the releases so far so so with that why don't we just going to go down the line that I started off with a couple of new apps you made specifically for communication aloe and do it well I say a low is it a low as an aloe vera aloe vera yeah LOL a ll ALL oh yeah sorry British name actually a little oh there's one for now Ralph maybe so the the whole idea that there's a little bit more functionality in terms of how you can communicate with people it also ties into the brand new not brand new but the Google assistant rather which is basically going to be a contextual backend for pretty much everything that you're doing on on Android but how did you guys feel about aloe and duo duo being the video messaging service that's why don't know whether to apps for stars I mean why not bake them into one app because like you were saying I mean they're not going to be default apps on on anything unless maybe nexuses but I mean not splitting them already into two already makes it harder I know you don't really think they need to exist at all it's not that yeah I I like the functionality that aloe and duo bring like a lowes really cool with the way that you can shout or whisper text messages and you can draw on photos and the integration with Google being able to ask Google now basically questions within within the app itself and all the other different things you can do with it it's all really nice features but it kind of makes you question why did they have to bring a whole new entire messaging app in order to do all this why couldn't they just you know revamp hangouts and incorporate incorporate it all into hangouts because it just makes a little bit more convoluted now when you have you know hangouts and messenger and now you have a low well yeah that's essentially where I'm coming from there too it's because i use a google voice number and i absolutely love using it because i use multiple devices so if a low is going to come in and be tied to the number you put onto their what will happen to google voice well it's still have the same functionality and whatnot because having a low and do it kind of means that we have redundancies across Android there's so many applications duo even though it looks like a great video messaging application yeah it's basically what you do when you'd swipe left on the snapchat it's essentially the same functionality it's just a few refinements inside and then a low is just it's just trying to make things a little more fun but what a load does on top of messaging is basically based on the Google assistant so I guess for me I'd be more excited to get google assistant yeah because that is a lot of fun to use yeah I mean Google assistant is really just Google now like an in that version of Google now from what I understand it's not about Google home a little bit IOT coming to the home I guess that's why the play things generally essentially an Amazon echo response right yeah it's a it's definitely they made it pretty clear that it's going to be an Amazon echo competitor I'm they even sort of mentioned the echo not necessarily talking bad about it but just saying that's a great product and they want to have something that sort of competes with that and that's what google home is going to do did you like it Chris I did yeah I thought it was pretty well done i mean i'm not familiar with echo so much i haven't used it but i think it feels long overdue is sort of surprising to me that google hasn't done this hardware hub for connected devices and you know google presence in the home already I mean I've never seen steps in this direction before but it sort of feels like it's a long time over dude so I'll time Google started connecting all of the dots in one central place and that's exactly what Google home is all right android wear two point oh about time about time well we're going to go into it i suppose more in-depth on what will potentially be our podcast earlier this week but kind of in a nutshell too low too late do you think yeah it's hard to say I mean we were discussing earlier standalone apps I mean standalone functionality is obviously a big deal it's a pretty big step for the platform but for me personally I don't really I didn't go anywhere without my phone so other than the odd occasion I go for a run and don't take my phone I don't really see it being that significant an update for me at least with my and Andrew I'm good I'm good I'm going to figure that because neither of you even wear Android wear watches that you'll probably this it's one of the only real concrete announces that we really got oh yeah it's for for me like I sort of gave up on Android wear and just wearables in general like a few months ago just because I don't I felt like it was more of a distraction than something that made my life easier in terms of reading notifications and things like that but I do like some of the changes especially the actual keyboard the on-screen keyboard because one thing that I've always sort of wanted was a SmartWatch was to have an on-screen keyboard and now they finally brought that feature so I don't know maybe it'll bring me back in Android wear so Google's finally putting out their own VR platform or rather we were discussing it earlier we're not too sure if this is supposed to be a particular product or platform or an API so well yeah I mean the whole reference design thing it sounds like Nexus VR so I'm still a little unsure what the ultimate game plan for that is is it just is it like Android one or something like I know they mentioned a smartphone spec for daydream VR ready devices and there'll be a whole bunch of those out in the fall but as Google going to be pushing its own hardware platform like Nexus or is it just something it's trying to encourage other OEMs to take on with their with their be ours so I guess we're not going to be calling android and new a whole lot after this keynote because not really a whole lot of new stuff being told about Android any no no really well i mean i think google i don't want to say shut itself in the foot because i totally recognizes the importance of getting getting a preview out early to get as much feedback as possible before the final release and i think that's great but it really lets the wind out of out of android sales that at i/o for like big announcements it's like last year Android Android M was like a really big deal everyone is sitting in the hallways flashing and getting excited and was really cool really cool and fun but this year just barely ready to mention and everyone sort of knew what was coming anyway and I mean dark mode is gone again apparently something that we've discovered after the fact they are setting up for a lot of stuff in the background well maybe not them in particular but right behind the camera is the amphitheater stage itself and there's actually going to be a great concert tonight with a couple of headliners like big headliners you have Charli XCX and Kai go of all people so you know kudos to google for making another great show you know just have some fun afterwards and that's what we're gearing up for hours well so this was our rundown of the Google keynote the i/o keynote for 2016 yeah stay tuned to Andrew 30 for all of the great coverage that we're going to have here we are going to try our best to get some demos of at least a few things around even though the weren't really device centric announcements at the keynote but you know we are still excited about what we hear you know we want to try them out but the problem is we can't until at least the summer at the earliest the summer for some of this stuff yeah I think that should pretty much do it so thank you guys so much for watching and stay tuned because we are your source for all things google i/o 2016 Oh