I dream of a gadget that can do all this. Instead, when I leave for the office, I pack one or two phones, a portable battery bank, a laptop, a kindle, a new product that I am testing, and pack at least one pair of earbuds. In my backpack, there is a bag filled with cords and adapters. On my body, I usually play between two and four wearing devices. I know that I have a “gadget maximalist” life. But, of course, one day, which the powers will be called and the society will decide on the next that gizmo-one is a perfect, do—all devices that will replace the phone.
Google does not look like this. At least, not depending on what I saw by the Google event based on last week.
In a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Google showed four phones, a smartwatch and a pair of earbuds. It is quite specific for a product launch, but was something different about this year’s update. It was not just an odd kenot format, or the latent anxiety of Gemini was filling in every corner of every product. It was an unconscious feeling that AI would not be the thing that tears the gardens with walls. This will strengthen them. Instead of streamlining the number of gadgets we carry, it can multiply them.
The word “vibe” is over -used these days, but in that strange Brooklyn TV studio, I felt a clear vibe shift in mobile computing. Especially with wearbals. Where? Thinking pieces And Online discourse It is used to argue that the wearbals were dead, the category is now being deployed as a pawn for AI.
“The first 15 -year -old wearbals were very high, ‘collect data, quantified self.” This is where Fitbit started, “Google’s product for pixel wearballs explains lead Sandeep Warich.” It was episodic data and it is moving for a rapidly constant insight because the data goes so far. ” It is moving some more personally than the most common. “
You can see where all this is going. Wearables generate a ton data. It is very difficult as it seems that it is digestible in a way And Keeps people busy for a long time. This is the kind of task that AI will be theoretically good – that is why you see every fitness tracker and app hoping on the market on the market.
At the same time, as Warich described it, Wearbals “are only one tool in our computing life that guarantees the presence of the body.” Your phone may feel as if it is sticking to your hand, but even it can be left behind on a table, inserted into a purse, or closed in a show. If you want the most personal, always available AI accessory, then it has to know everything completely to learn about you. Is there a better way to do so But You?
The problem with AI hardware is that we are in the spaghetti phase. Nobody knows what the winning formula is, and therefore every thought under the sun is going to throw on the wall Some? Sticks. You have your always listening life recorders to be your second memory. Meta’s hypothesis is that multimodal is plateonic ideal gateway for smart glass AI. Johnny Ive and Sam Altman Hyper can be unclear that the hyper can be unclear about any project they are working on Anything They say that this point can be correct.
But tell this to listen to Google, no One The form factor is going to rule the highest rule.
“Any religion is now with you, perhaps before time,” Rishi Chandra says, Google’s fitbit and VP, when I ask what form factor Google is, Google is betting for Mithun. “There is no doubt in my brain, going to be a new form factors that will be present. But I think it’s firm belief. What is interesting AI is moving so fast that you can change any approach on hardware very quickly.”
“What’s interesting AI is moving so fast that any approach you have on hardware can change very quickly.”
Instead, Chandra says that Google tilted all this to the spaghetti-numb. Some of them have an openness to experiment. You only have to see its newborn platform Android XR for smart glasses to see this. The other half “you have to maximize the already existing equipment.” The phone is an early point. Smartwatch and earbuds are natural extensions, but the entire capacity of AI hardware has not yet been unlocked. Hope, Warich says, it is that by experimentation and maximizing, you end up with a winning combination that has not yet been seen.
Chandra explains, “The future will be a very diverse set of goods, those who can choose the work for them, in their environment and what they care about.” “Our job is to do all this work (together) so it doesn’t matter.”
Warich agrees. Google, they say, align these overall changes well with their vision for environment computing, a world where your devices fade in the background, autonomally and continuously respond to your every need. (When you walk in a room, for example, your AI Lightballbs can switch to a fair-settings as they can talk on your phone, on which you have just text to tell a friend to say that you have a migraine.) But the environment computing will never be unlocked if there is only an all-purposeful gadget. It will also not work if these gadgets do not speak a common language. So why wouldn’t google pitch Gemini be held as glue all this? If Gemini becomes The AI-AI is, and it is mainly cooked in Google Hardware-Perhaps is that you actually get people to take care of green bubbles.
Some of this shift is because the smartphone is about 20 years old. A gadget that was once inspired by amazement, these days the phones feel like a Toyota Camry compared to a Ferrari. Verizon CEO Hans Westberg said last year That “exciting time is over” And that many people have been keeping their phone for three years or more. These numbers have ups and downs on the basis of field and demographic, but Big Tech has publicly accepted that People are not just upgrading their phones as they used to do,
It is seen from that lens, it makes sense to push towards AI hardware. It just seems to be out of the sink what people tell me what they want. Google officials told me that the talk of Gemini (and AI in general) to make people’s life easier, to return their time. This is a great discovery that seems that people always feel from modern life with tiredness. But even if I can see Google’s vision, even if I really see the value in some parts of it – how it is adding, it’s difficult More Gadget with More AI addresses existential fatigue.
Nevertheless, this is the condition that is going to all of Google. This is why Pixel 10 and Pixel Watch 4 seems like such opinion tools in a scenario of recurred updates. I argue why we are also seeing why smart rings receive traction, and Meta has seen the success of hardware with its smart glasses, which is after years of failing to celebrate people to take care of metals. Everyone is looking for the next turn in the story, and for now, it is turning on AI Wearbals. Many, many of them.
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