Google I/O '25: Thoughts & Takeaways
It's software spring once again: the couple of months that almost every tech company announces new software and services. We are currently a week out from seeing Apple's WWDC (with a rumored OS redesign, and AI enhancements), and I also just attended my fourth Google I/O a couple of weeks ago. For a couple of years now: Google has kept an equal footing between their multiple products: Android, AI, Web (Search/Workspace), and Cloud (GCP). There was a time when Google I/O was solely focused on Android and Services, but AI has increasingly been getting a spotlight since about 2020. As an avid user of all these aspects of Google's offering, I'll use this space to note down some of my own thoughts regarding all these aspects. Android Source: Google Our favorite bot turns 16, and while dessert names had been forgone from the mainline a long time ago, internally this version has been christened "Baklava". From an OS and devops position, one of the most notable ch...
