Keynote by Darin Fisher, VP of Chrome (Chrome Dev Summit 2015)

[@bagoquarks]

Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving.

[@DanielStrokis]

I think it's great that Google let one of the Making a Murderer lawyers give the keynote.

[@mostafizurrahman7922]

Thanks and love

[@artemz5774]

oh thanks.... i don't hear here this background music from official site.

[@bagoquarks]

About a month ago there was a great deal of chatter in the technology press about the possible convergence of Android and Chrome. This keynote was an opportunity to deny, confirm, or otherwise elaborate on the relationship of those two Google products. Although this talk was informative, this issue was not mentioned.

[@MrKinlan]

+Michael OBrien (hardwareMike) watch the leadership panel session instead, it is answered there.

[@bagoquarks]

+Paul Kinlan Yes, I did later see the panel response in answer to a question. I took the answer to be 'No, they are not converging'. Nonetheless, mentioning it the keynote would have been proactive. Answering a panel question made it appear reactive - more like having the information reluctantly pried out of management. IMO it's a valid strategic direction, not a mistake where one avoids discussion. While Chrome and Android overlap in functionality and use cases, their origins differ in how human hands are used. Chrome is arguably rooted in two-handed QWERTY keyboards while Android is centered on one-handed touches and swipes. Furthermore, there are the software roots of browser architecture vs. mobile architecture. As a shareholder I have no problem with investing in both technologies. An alternative path, a single OS strategy, created issues for Microsoft: (1) customers resisting upgrades from Windows XP, (2) resistance to Windows 8, (3) abandonment of Internet Explorer for Edge, (4) Nokia and the Windows Phone. I'm not a shareholder.

[@MrKinlan]

+Michael OBrien (hardwareMike) there's nothing to announce, and when there isn't anything to announce I don't see why it should be in the keynote. I think you are making a mountain out of nothing with this :) Anyway, I also disagree with Chrome being rooted in QWERTY, yes on desktop but Chrome's been mobile for over 3 years now.

[@bagoquarks]

+Paul Kinlan I believe there was something to un-announce. The chatter in the press prior to this year's Chrome Dev Summit created a Chrome vs. Android question that was hanging in the air for some Google customers and investors (I am both). As such, it became more of a PR issue than a 'defending a technology' issue. When PR issues arise, however well or poorly grounded they may be, it is good practice to eliminate ambiguity with the facts - I thought Darin Fisher's keynote might have been the place to do that. As for QWERTY: - I bought my first Android phone in 2010 which replaced a Blackberry. I never had Chrome on that Android 2.3 device but I was using a Chrome browser concurrently on a PC. - Netscape Navigator, IE, Firefox, Chrome, and the browser product competition launched on machines with two-handed QWERTY keyboards. - My current Android phone is a Nexus 5X running on Google Fi and I am delighted to be using Chrome on it. Like my Blackberry Storm and Droid X before it, I hold it in my left hand and tap and swipe with my right - one-handed, not very QWERTY entry. - While Android was inspired by Java (a two-handed QWERTY OS), Android has arguably been a (one-handed) smart phone OS from the outset. Anecdote: While a college student in the early 1970s, a friend in my dorm was an engineering student. One of his projects was to mock up a portable computer in wood and plastic. A choice he made was to paint a QWERTY keyboard onto the surface, committing his design to two-handed data entry. His point was that the smallest size of his device was limited by the human hand (actually 2 human hands), not future electronics. My point is that two-handed vs. one-handed is significant to UI architecture. Notes: - The technologies presented for mobile development at a major Chrome developers conference are for future applications developed with two-handed QWERTY keyboards, but aimed for consumers who will use them with one hand or perhaps two thumbs. - Among other things, Polymer provides a lot of elements that facilitate one-handed entry, thereby putting web applications on a UI par with Android applications.

[@MrKinlan]

+Michael OBrien (hardwareMike) Interesting... I still disagree, but interesting.

[@meenakochak56]

Mee too. EASTER lunch and winner in my home..

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[@josealbertorodriguesriplaki]

Excelentes notícias

[@jagadeeshsarathi8954]

க்ரோம்....

[@picanteverde]

Darin, how much do you use the actual web experience? you don look too much excited about ir, c'mon man is a new way to see the world for all of us you should look much more exited about it! sell it to me I'm an iphone user and I want chrome! convince me why to!!!

[@thuyluu3564]

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[@heisdivuzki]

the fact that chrome makes it annoying to off autocomple on an input field❌❌💀💀