And then there’s the elephant in the room: AI. It is taking over everything, and although many aspects are great, I feel like it’s a tool that you can use a bit, like the Pen tool in Photoshop, but it feels like AI is being used to paper over some pretty cracks in the mobile experience. In some ways, this shift to latch on to AI makes a lot of sense. Let’s face it, your phone now, at its core, probably doesn’t do much differently than say, 7 or 8 years ago. Unless you have a foldable phone— and fair play to you if you do — you probably run the same suite of applications you have had since day
Is the Android we once knew slowly getting eroded? [Video]… Table of contents Copying and converging design principles A shrinking playing field with fewer players The end of “tinkering” with our phones Is AI becoming a problem for the “old” Android? A mature, maybe muted future for Android The old Android landscape almost felt like the wild west. …
Google AI Studio can now build Android apps, Android Studio adds iOS app porting Abner Li | May 19 2026 - 10:55 am PT | May 19 2026 - 10:55 am PT Following The Android Show, Google made several developer announcements at I/O 2026, led by AI Studio’s new capability to build native Android apps. …
… But, as with everything else nowadays, AI would also be a central part of this new device, with Alexa poised to “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Notably, the lack of a proper app store was a primary failing of the original Fire Phone, as it relied on the Amazon Appstore which, espe… …
… Expand Expanding Close Android 13 Go edition announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more Abner Li Oct 19 2022 - 10:38 am PT Google announced and detailed Android 13 Go edition today with several sizable changes to the user experience and underlying technical functionality grou… …
… The two discuss AI-generated wallpapers, that new Now Playing app, and Android’s new bubbles — not to be confused with its own bubbles — while Andrew introduces his SPI: Sandwich Price Index. …
… That remains to be seen, but there’s no future in which we go back to simple switch controllers, it seems. The great Gemini transition In one of the most obvious plays in the history of tech, the future is Gemini. …