That kind of virtuous cycle could mean a lot more innovation in the foldable market over the next few years.Īt the same time, the Pixel Fold itself will satisfy you only if you keep your expectations low. I hope that as Google implements more large-screen capabilities, developers and OEMs will in turn plan for these features.
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Part of why I am excited to see more competition in the foldables space is that Google now has skin in the game, giving it more of a reason to lean into foldable technology outside of its partnership with Samsung. Bring on the competitive foldables!Įnter the Pixel Fold, which brings exciting competition and hope to this space while also keeping expectations low. That makes it the perfect time for Google to launch its own foldable smartphone to take advantage of momentum in this market niche that Samsung has been upholding for too long. Samsung has made it very clear since it debuted the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 that foldable smartphones are much more mature than they were five years ago. For too long, Samsung has been the only dominant player for foldable devices, at least in North America.
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These Android app improvements and multitasking enhancements should enable more devices to adopt a foldable design without prolonging the feeling that foldables are still at the bleeding edge of the smartphone market. I appreciate these updates-it's high time for them. At its recent event, Google announced more than 50 Google apps that have been optimized for larger screens with smoother transitions across screens, improved multi-column layouts and a dedicated tablet mode. Over the past couple of Android versions, since Android 12L, Google has emphasized the implementation of Android for larger displays such as tablets and foldables. Health and activity applications are a significant area where I could see AI making a tremendous impact, and I believe Google can lean into AI much harder with Fitbit and Google Fit. It has been a couple of years since Google acquired Fitbit, and we have not seen much progress in merging the Google Fit and Fitbit platforms. The Pixel Watch, Google's first iteration of a smartwatch with Fitbit features, carries significant momentum, but one of the biggest criticisms it has faced is that Fitbit, a Google company, is "built on," not built-in. Similarly, I did not hear any updates or announcements about Fitbit and Google Fit. I would have liked to see more Wear OS announcements and hear Google talk about how it is enabling developers to build apps and connect with the many Wear OS app managers such as Galaxy Wearable and the Pixel Watch app. While this is something to be happy about, I was slightly disappointed that Google did not announce anything new for Wear OS, instead just offering assurance that developers are investing in the platform and that it will announce more later this year. Google also seemed pretty happy to announce that its Wear OS user base has grown by more than five times since the launch of Wear OS 3 back in 2021-and that it is now the fastest-growing smartwatch platform. An application could have smaller customized AI models specifically for the application's use-case with a more general AI, also known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), model picking up the more challenging workloads in the cloud. AI requires a significant amount of processing power and hybrid AI should enable AI applications to save resources by using on-device processing while leaving the door open for more demanding AI applications in the cloud. Qualcomm has written a great whitepaper here that dives into why the future of AI is hybrid. Qualcomm has already recognized the need for AI processing to be distributed between the cloud and devices. On-device AI and hybrid AI are going to enable even more applications in the Android ecosystem to integrate AI. Google mentioned on-device AI earlier in the keynote with the announcement of PaLM 2, specifically the smallest model named Gecko which can be run on mobile devices.
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