In which Google reads my mind and misses

[mme_hardy]

 At Google I/O, the presenter is describing all the advantages of the new Google Wear watches.

•  The watch recognizes that he usually orders a pizza each afternoon. His watch vibrates with an alert from EAT24. A few taps later, his pizza is ordered.
• He’s now walking through how Pinterest ties into Android Wear. If he walks by a restaurant that one of his friends has pinned, for example, Pinterest can pop up an alert to let him know.

These are things the vendors want my phone to do.  These are not things I want my phone to do.

Edit:  Ohgodno.
“So how do we do that? We’re using a variety of technologies to confirm that you’re in the same room as the Chromecast. If for some reason we can’t automatically detect that, you can enter an on-screen PIN”

Full liveblog at Engadget:   http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/25/google-io-2014-keynote-live-blog/

Comments

[rinue]

Oh, thank god. I was worried I might have to have a moment of my life take place outside of brandworld, and might therefore miss an opportunity to instagram myself with an animated M&M triggered by a QR code checkpoint.

[movingfinger]

Holy shit, that's creepy nasty horrible.

These guys live in an echo chamber of cubicles, don't they...

ETA: Reading the liveblog, shouting "The NSA loves this!" at intervals would have been more apropos than the nutty robot line.

Running from the room screaming now

[movingfinger]

"Greg Kumparak June 25, 201410:41 am

"You’ll soon be able to send content to someone’s Chromecast without them even being on the same WiFi network."


I SEE NO WAY IN WHICH THIS WILL GO HORRIBLY WRONG.

If a TV is on in an empty room, is it showing a picture?

[nineveh_uk]

Suddenly I am wishing I had bought an iPhone and not the otherwise excellent Motorola.

It's striking how totally unnecessary these things are. I mean, a person who orders a pizza everyday is not going to forget to do so and so starve (though they might, god forbid, order some different take away for once). And yet, these functions could be incredibly useful for some people, in life-supporting ways. Just not to do with pizza. Elderly person with poor memory who needs to take an a tablet 3/4 times a day? Watch could tell you when and remind you to manage your eating around that if necessary. Vulnerable person who doesn't check in with a relative you they are supposed to? Watch could remind you, then the relative, then call the ambulance. Id love to be able to get my email calendar to say "Have you done the leavers for this month's payroll" by saying it - as I would have to set up this as an appointment, I never do. And so on.

Re: If a TV is on in an empty room, is it showing a picture?

[kore]

Yeah, I think there was a recent nytimes.com article (haha, I know) which pointed out that a lot of the gadgets and apps these young white guy programmers are making are mostly for the needs of....young white guy programmers, so they are about pizza and whatever, even when, as you point out, they could be used for entirely different (and USEFUL) things.

[ironed_orchid]

Apparently I am not getting the most out of my Android by refusing to give it permissions regarding my location. I an quite okay with this.

[vom_marlowe]

....yikes.
After last year's I/O and their chat 'upgrade' that basically broke Gchat and that they never once explained/answered questions about, I swapped my Android phone for an iphone and haven't looked back.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

No. Oh god no.

Nine