a16z Podcast: For Google, Android is a Tactic and Cloud is a Strategy

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🗓️ 30 May 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Google is a vast machine learning company. If you think about it in those terms, says Benedict Evans, every product and feature Google builds is an expression of its machine learning expertise -- or a way to distribute it, and provide easier access t...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the A16Z podcast, day one of Google I.O.
0:03.8	And I have Benedict Evans here to pick it apart for us.
0:07.1	Benedict, welcome.
0:08.1	Hello.
0:08.8	I was excited by just the name of Android M.
0:12.9	It makes it seem so non-lollipoppy, et cetera.
0:16.5	And I was waiting for an incredible breakthrough.
0:19.8	In candy naming.
0:21.0	Candy naming.
0:22.3	But what did we get?
0:24.4	Well, it's interesting.
0:27.5	And there's maybe half a dozen sort of separate things to talk about here.
0:32.6	The first thing is Android M, which has a bunch of perfectly worthwhile sensible improvements,
0:40.3	some of which were in iOS, some of which will be in iOS, as is always the way with this
0:45.2	stuff. No really big tent pole improvements, to be honest. A few little bits and pieces and
0:52.0	lots of good stuff, but no big temporal improvements.
0:55.1	What's interesting and what's increasingly apparent from Google is that all the innovation
0:59.7	really is happening in the Google services that get laid on top of Android.
1:05.1	And in many cases, of course, are also available on iOS and indeed on the web.
1:09.5	So wait, describe that for us.
1:11.0	If it doesn't sit inside Android necessarily or it's not part of Android, it sits where?
1:16.7	So, well, so there's two answers to that.
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