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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?

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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".

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.

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

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.

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