Google's annual developers' conference, known as the I/O, has now become what Apple's events have ceased to be: A window into the near future of consumer tech. This year's event revealed two important bets Google is making for the post-smartphone era.
The short version of Google's (for the sake of convenience I will keep calling it that rather than Alphabet, as the holding company is now known) vision appears to be as follows. The phone will upgrade to a universal mobile device with virtual reality capability. It will have all the basic communication functions, but wearable or home-based devices, untethered from phones and equipped with better voice recognition software, will gradually take over.
Read Article: www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-19/google-wants-your-smartphone-to-be-a-virtual-theater
The short version of Google's (for the sake of convenience I will keep calling it that rather than Alphabet, as the holding company is now known) vision appears to be as follows. The phone will upgrade to a universal mobile device with virtual reality capability. It will have all the basic communication functions, but wearable or home-based devices, untethered from phones and equipped with better voice recognition software, will gradually take over.
Read Article: www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-19/google-wants-your-smartphone-to-be-a-virtual-theater