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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npV4Kix7Td0

If this was a startup, they would be dead in the water. Nothing of substance, awful sound, 9:45 mins in they don't have a key piece of live demo equipment (the phone)/

As someone else said, it's like they asked a couple of interns to rush something out in 24 hours.

No wonder the stock price is tanking. Awful display from Google.



Damn that was painful to watch. They seem utterly disconnected from how people actually use their phones in real life.

Finding elevators and atms with AR ? Is that the future google is selling ? Who's buying. If google maps was the equivalent of the invention the printing press that would be the invention of scented toilet paper


I've got to say it was one of the most painfully bad presentations I've ever seen, from any company or organization. Spectacular fail.


Yeah... For those who haven't seen it:

At one point they were unable to demo because there was no phone to demo on (~9:35).


I don't think that's toilet paper you're smelling


The lens feature is not new but it steadily keeps getting better

But yeah the 720p demo was bad, probably why they deleted the original


This whole display was just - weird. The production values make it seem like it was the equivalent of a local meetup group, not a worldwide presentation/announcement. But coming so soon after Google's big AI announcement on Monday, looks like the public/investors were assuming this would be a much bigger/more substantial event than it actually was.

That said, I still think this reflects very poorly on Google's organizational focus.


Maybe the people who were supposed to be running the event got laid off xD


That's so not funny, it's probably true.


I thought it was funny


Thoughts are allowed to be both funny and sad at the same time.


whatever happened to "comedy is tragedy plus time"?


We're missing the time component right now. It's still recent tragedy.


I think the correct link is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWXJ22LUEc (atleast the sound is better here)


Compared to Apple keynotes and the WWDC, this looks…amateurish. Like a startup pitching a new feature.


Why is there a "he/him" next to his name? weird...


I just skimmed through the video and didn't see anything too terrible. To be honest, I don't care they forgot a phone. I'd rather see mistakes like that than over rehearsed presentations.


I am in the minority here. But for me, google's presentations were always like this. The presentation always seemed so rehearsed with artificial excitement.




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