This is going to sound very ‘my uncle works for Nintendo’ so feel free to not believe me, but the last I heard it was a “talent retention project”. Google would rather let some extremely good engineers work on Fuschia, even though it that has very little value, than leave the company and build something higher value for a competitor.

The real important reminder here is that you should never use SMS as your 2FA delivery method. Phone numbers aren’t private and once associated with an account it’s far too easy to spoof/sim swap and intercept the code.

That is exactly like saying having a separate deadbolt on your door is adding another attack vector…

It’s not clear why Google wants to do this, but one theory is that it’ll run some workloads more optimally and securely than microdroid.

Microdroid is a “Parallel Virtual Machine”. The idea is to offload part of the responsibility of an app to this VM so that it can execute in an environment that is more secure than what Android can guarantee.

So nobody knows why but (in typical Fuchsia fashion) it probably isn’t something a consumer would even know or care about.

Uh huh… The Oxford definition literally says that’s untue.

of or involving sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing

Huh? Multimodal is coming later this year (like I said in my last comment).

They have had on device Gen AI running on Pixel phones in production since last year.

Gemini Nano. It’s in Pixel Recorder and Gboard but multimodal capabilities are coming soon. It’s very limited to a couple phones and not many companies outside of Google have access, but it has been used in production since last year.

Apple does not have on device AI in production today. Microsoft’s “Copilot+PCs” launched less than 2 weeks ago, but are significantly more powerful machines.

Ironically Google is kind of the only one actually doing on device AI.

This feature seems entirely pointless, especially for this device (which should just be called the Pixel Fold 2).

Since the device is basically square (resolution 2,076 x 2,152) why would you not just rotate 90 degrees to change the side by side to top bottom like we can today?

Because people don’t understand the difference between using ChatGPT running in a datacenter somewhere via API calls and having a tiny model actually running on device.

Even quantized down to 4bit the best 7B models barely run locally on the best mobile hardware that exists today. GPT4 is ~250x larger than that 7B model lol

Yup!

This has to be for commercial applications. I have a gaming rig and a server very comfortably running off a single 1200 W PSU.

Yeah, I like the camera bump on my Pixel Fold since it shouldn’t go all the way across the back and is still square-ish. These are similar but worse. Pixel 6 was peak design IMO.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. The vast majority of their efforts have to be going into the fully custom (TSMC) G5 for next year.

Casting from your phone is occasionally convenient but for everyday TV/movie watching it’s way more clunky than Android TV. And you can’t really browse for something to watch together with someone else on a phone.

In case you didn’t know they released an Android TV app over a year ago.

I’m a YouTube premium subscriber with Adguard Home and haven’t noticed anything slow.

Yes. I went to my first Google I/O 10 years ago and my second today.

2014: Introduced Android L, Android Wear, Android TV and Android Auto.

2024: Gemini Nano… still not publicly available to app developers. 💀

Bummer. Maybe there will be more options when Android 15 launches, it is adding the option to choose the default wallet app.

Security-wise that is significantly worse. Google Pay generates a random card number per transaction and isn’t active when the phone is locked.

I keep my credit cards in an NFC blocking sleeves because the passive NFC can’t be turned off. Someone could literally bump into you and cause a transaction.