Google IO 2014
Last week, Google held their annual developer conference, Google IO 2014, where they announced major updates for all products including Google Cloud, Android and Chrome. This year, it’s evident Google is slowly but surely making all our dumb things smart, from cars to TVs. They previewed loads of products but below are a few key areas that they focused on: AndroidOne initiative, get the next 5 billion online Android Wear Android Auto Android TV & Chromecast Chrome OS gets closer to android Enterprise gets a boost Google Fit To give you an idea of the scale and reach Android has to date, Google started the presentation with the following stats: 30 day active users are now 1 billion up from 530 million in 2013 20B text messages are sent every day 93m selfies per day (31 million are apparently duck faces) Users take approximately 1.5 trillion steps per day Phones are checked a total of 100B a day 62% of all tablet shipments ar...