the vibes are way off. i miss the old days when i/o was all about android and we were all full of optimism

The Wikipedia article for I/O really underlines how sad it's become: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_I/O

It went from "Google's take on Apple's WWDC and launches" to "AI everywhere all at once". Like, look at how much awesome shit Google dropped between 2008 and 2020! Really sad.

To be clear, it's not just Google. This is happening to all of the big conferences. Nothing but AI. Okay, maybe not CES. But still.

In fairness I don't think that's Google's fault. Circa 2009 we were in a Cambrian explosion of possibility with mobile. These days the tech is just... fine.

I agree, they used to be exciting but now it's just AI nonsense, and they basically don't change Android now.