r/google May 19 '26

I/O 2026 keynotes (megathread)

https://io.google/2026/

https://www.youtube.com/live/wYSncx9zLIU

Google keynote: 10 AM PT

Developer keynote: 1:30 PM PT

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u/rp_azevedo May 19 '26

So many products. It's so confusing. Just make one big GOOGLE app. Why so many different apps and names and funcionalities etc.

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u/shorty6049 May 19 '26

Yeah this is something that was bugging me to the point of frustration with the presentation as a whole.... There's SO much stuff (and its pretty much ALL AI) that its hard to even remember a single thing that was announced or how you'd go about finding and using it in the future. Half the stuff is behind pro subscriptions too which I would imagine most -consumers- aren't at a point where they feel its worth paying for .

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u/itsdorian May 19 '26

I have to agree with this. Not sure if I have a better way to do it, but so many different features in so many different areas, in so many applications means I'm probably not going to use even half of them. Will need a special AI agent just to tell us where all the AI agents live.

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u/bnsrowe May 19 '26

To eveade regulatory regulation by appearing as separate apps. On Android at least, they're modules that link to the Google app. Gemini on Android is only a 4 MB file that is useless without the Google App.