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- Well, I kind of teased it in the beginning
but apparently Google IO is a hardware show now,
which it wasn't really, in years past.
Every year, Google has this big developer conference.
It maybe goes silent to some folks
but for those of us in the industry,
it's all that we could pay attention to this week
because this is the time when Google
kind of lays out the red carpet and goes,
"Here's what we're working on behind the scenes
"in our AI divisions, in the assistant.
"And here's all the new hardware
"that apparently we're gonna release."
- Yeah, as you can see behind Flo,
they just like, went ahead,
and also I'll put up a photo right here.
They just went ahead and announced their whole hardware
or at least their Pixel lineup through the rest of the year
and even one device that they expect to come out in 2023.
It wasn't the majority of the show.
It was like the last 15 minutes, which was really annoying
to us as Tech Journalists.
But you know, it's Google IO.
What they like to do is they like to spend the vast majority
of the show bragging about stuff they did months ago,
or like making promises about stuff that they are
definitely gonna do next year.
And I guess these are part of the promise segment now.
So at this- - The promise segments.
I like that actually.
Sounds like an emo band.
- Ooh.
Okay, we're trademarking that.
Maybe next Google IO, they'll play one of our songs.
- Exactly. - But yeah.
This Google IO saw new Pixel phones.
It saw new Pixel earbuds
with active noise canceling,
very clearly aiming at the Apple AirPods Pro,
which are a few years old now.
So I'm curious to see what Apple does
at its developers conference.
They announced the Pixel watch
which got leaked a while back and is probably
the star of the show for us and then to Flo's right,
there's a mysterious tablet that
they didn't tell us a lot about
other than that it will run Android
and that it will come out in 2023.
- Yeah, let's talk about this one real quick.
So a couple things I noticed on Twitter.
A lot of folks saying, "It looks like an iPad",
which, these are all renderings.
So to be quite frank,
we don't really know what these things look like.
We just know what the graphic designers
at Google put together for us to have, you know,
an image in our mind.
And so far, what we see here
is just like this very bare bones sort of looking device.
It doesn't have like the same, oh my goodness,
doing this backwards by the way,
is very fun on the video feed.
I'm trying to like point at things
but you'll notice it doesn't have the signature
camera bar on the back like the Pixel smartphones.
So already like design language,
there's a little variance there.
What I really feel though is that this Pixel tablet
is going to try and bring Android back to tablets
Previously, it kind of felt like Google
not necessarily abandoned it
but definitely shelved the Android on the tablets bit,
let the other OEMs, you know, kind of deal with it.
Like Lenovo has been really successful
with their line of tablets and Samsung as well.
But I feel like now Google's like,
we're gonna take it back
but this is not necessarily gonna be a device that,
I don't know if it's gonna have the same
existence as an iPad.
I feel like this is definitely gonna be
a buy this in addition to the rest of your Pixel hardware.
'Cause look, what I have behind me
is an ecosystem of devices.
Like this is the real announcement.
This is the real announcement right here,
is that Google is officially considering itself
a hardware company no longer just a search giant.
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