I miss ten years ago, when Googlers jumped out of a plane whilst in a Google Glass video call and landed straight into IO. Yeah it was a gimmick, but it got us all talking.

I miss when Android was less mature and had a lot of catching up to do, and IO was the delivery of all the exciting enhancements coming to Android.

It’s hard to get excited when the biggest announcements this year will be… “We made our AI better, buy our phone and you’ll be able to use it”.

Pirate Guitar Pro, install it, and download the GP files from Ultimate Guitar. Easy.

Kinda sick of this meme. It’s not dead, it was replaced by Health Connect.

Google Fit was the ‘hub’ for fitness-related data for all apps. Developers could link their app to Fit so users had one place for all their health data.

Android took over Fit’s role and called it Health Connect, which is now out of beta. Health Connect is the API that developers now use to store their data in one centralised location on the user’s device.

If anything, this is just a logical next step. Should Google have just started with Health Connect? Obviously. but I think it works better as an Android service and not a Google one.

Google Fit is sticking around (for now), as a user app for tracking fitness. It uses Health Connect API to store data, and now other developers need to use Health Connect instead of the Fit API.

I take it you weren’t around for the Nexus 7 (first edition)?

Not for me :)

Are you allergic to punctuation?

My wife keeps telling me she’s feeling unsupported.

I made my Pixel 3 last for 4 years before getting a Pixel 7 this year.

So if things go as smoothly with the Pixel 7, I’ll be upgrading to the Pixel 11 with Google’s revised fully-custom chip.