49: Google I/O Wish List
13 May 2013
What we’d like to see come out of Google I/O, and the real changes they need to make to boost Android development to the next level. We’ve got our list, and we’re checking it twice. Plus is there such a thing as a VPS on the cheap? The real improvements Apple needs to make in iOS 7, your feedback and more!
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Google IO Predications
Google’s hotly anticipated annual developer conference will kick off in just a couple days in San Francisco. And conference-goers and Android fans are excited about the possibility of new products the company may announce and/or give away.
So far Pichai, a 40-year old grad of the fabled Indian Institute of Technology and later Stanford, has kept his head down and refused all press. But as this week’s I/O event approached, he granted WIRED his first interview since taking over Android.
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WWDC Wish List
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iOS 7 Launch Likely In WWDC 2013 As Web Traffic From Devices Running Unannounced Apple OS Surge
TechCrunch reported Wednesday that Onswipe, company that specializes in creating tablet-optimized HTML5 websites for its customers, has observed “a significant bump” in the number of visits to its partner sites — from both iPhones and iPads that apparently run on iOS 7
Ouya has revealed it will delay the retail launch of its Android-based gaming console by three weeks until June 25th. In an interview with Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman.
OUYA, the most well-funded andeavily marketed of a number of approaches to TV-based microconsole gaming, has announced both a $15 million funding round and a three-week pushback on its June 4 retail launch date.
The round, led by Kleiner Perkins, features investment from graphics company NVIDIA (which is marketing its new mobile processors heavily on theironsole-like gaming performance, most obviously in their proof-of-concept Project Shield console, and which supplies the Tegra 3 mobile processor powering the OUYA), the Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures and Ocean Partners. This nearly doubles the $8.5 million funding the OUYA console raised in its July 2012 Kickstarter campaign. Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon, an EA veteranurrently on the board of Zynga, will also join the OUYA board.