Show Notes
- Android News
- Distribution stats are back. Pie is 10.4%, Oreo, 28.3%…
- WearOS update introduces Tiles
- Android Auto is getting a ground-up redesign this summer
- Sharing what’s new in Android Q
- On Device Machine Learning to power a variety of new customization features
- Security and Privacy as a focus
- Dark Mode
- Project Mainline offers Security updates without reboot
- Google releases Pixel 3a line of budget phones
- Google adds Nest Hub Max.
- App News
- Tasker 5.7 rolls out with voice commands, nav bar customization, Bixby Button remapping, etc.
- Google Home App hits 100 million downloads.
- Firefox pushes out update after expired certificate disables add-ons.
- Assistant is coming to Waze.
- Google Assistant will be speeding up by running locally on phones.
- Assistant Driving Mode will replace Android Auto on phones(without head unit)
- AR Walking Directions now on Pixel phones
- In Other News
- The Case Against Dark Mode
- Google will now auto-delete your location and web history.
- Duck Duck Go proposes legislation to require sites to honor users Do Not Track preferences.
- Peter Mayhew, the actor behind Chewbacca, dead at age 74.
- Google Fi mistakenly charges buyers financing Pixel 3 and other phones full price.
- Author finally comes to terms with his phone addiction
- Big Four US carriers face class action lawsuits after selling customer data
- Right before I/O, Amazon says the Echo platform now supports 60,000 smart home devices
- Google plans to rebrand all Home products to the Nest brand
- You don’t have to say the wakeword to stop timers or alarms on Google Home anymore
- Update on Home Assistant…founder is no longer sponsored by Ubiquiti, Home Assistant trying to get to 1.0 this year, better partnerships with manufacturers/developers,
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