Google’s Android Chief Hopes Its ‘New Era’ Will Get People to Ditch Their iPhones

And that brings us to the third focus for Android, which is the connecting line between all the Android ecosystem products—artificial intelligence. Almost the entirety of Google's keynote was spent on Gemini, the chatbot replacing the 9-year-old Google Assistant in everything from Android Auto and Wear OS, to smartphones and now Android XR. But this is what Samat says makes Android XR unique, as it's the “first Android platform built for the Gemini era.” He went on with a cluster of examples, like asking Gemini to summarize the chapter of a book you're reading based on the images it captured as you turned the pages over, or having it scour your emails in Gmail for the answer to a question, hands-free through the glasses. “It gives you superpowers when you put them on,” Samat says. Will this AI-first approach help change the minds of Americans and get them on board the Android train? Samat didn't say, but he did claim his 14-year-old son learned to do the laundry for the first time wi ... Read full article.