All the Cool Stuff Google Just Announced, Ranked by Coolness

By Published on May 30, 2015

At its annual conference for software developers on Thursday, Google announced so much new stuff that tech reporters in the audience were begging for a pee break. Much of it was either “meh” or “me-too”—Google versions of products that rivals like Apple already offer. But things took a turn for the interesting at about the halfway mark, when Google veered from smartwatches and mobile payments into the sorts of things Google does best: creepy-smart A.I., massive free cloud storage, random experiments in virtual reality, and the like.

In the interest of sparing you the boring stuff, I’ve ranked Google’s new products according to how interesting I think they’ll be to the ordinary tech consumer. To be clear, I’m not a professional software developer and thus not the core audience for some of Google’s announcements, like the ones about app indexing. You’ll have to look elsewhere for a list of the stuff they found most interesting. This one’s for the normals.

Read the article “All the Cool Stuff Google Just Announced, Ranked by Coolness” on slate.com.

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