Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland, and we're here with Benedict Evans, who is

digesting three hours of Google I.O. Keynote and then some. Benedict, welcome. Welcome.

So, three hours long, really? Yeah, and people started making jokes at about the two and a half hour mark. My

suggestion was that they should get Peter Jackson to produce next years. It sounds without right.

I mean, what Apple does is they actually have two key notes. So they have the one that everyone

knows about, which is two hours. And then they have something called State of the Union where they

talk about all the really interesting technical stuff that afternoon. So Apple actually does do four hours as well because there's just so much stuff

going on but Apple kind of Google kind of squeezed it all in and um you know people started to go to

sleep towards the end I think Gilgan's Island a three hour ride or journey whatever it is yep so

in that three hours what stood out for you? Let's sort of tick

through some of those things and then dig a little deeper. So I think there's a couple of

observations here. One is that it seemed like there was relatively little around Android.

And there's lots of nice incremental stuff, but there weren't like major strategic moves

or major tent pole features.

And more of the discussion was around the,

what you might call the satellites.

So the wearable device, the fitness, the car, the TV.

And you know, they announced the next version of Android.

Right.

You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I think the second thing that I thought was interesting was the move, a sort of a shift in mood.

And so there's a pair piece here with, with WWDC. Because obviously, WDC, they've had, Apple has had

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