Google is building an open platform, at scale they work with hundreds of partners globally, to bring a product and a platform that touches billions of people, and they are innovation Android very very fast. And if you take a look at the innovation that is happening in Android, and if you look at the recent announcements from others, you can see the thing like Custom Keyboard, Quick Settings, Gesture Typing and Widgets, those things happen in Android 4 to 5 years ago. Google wants to ship these features to the users as fast as possible, that's where Google Play Services come in.
Google Play Services ships every six weeks, and 93% users are on the latest version of the Google Play Services across all versions of Android. Infect by shipping every 6 weeks be in many ways iterate faster than typical OS cycles. While Android is an open platform and Google wants to innovate fast, and it should be secure as well, they also takes security very seriously.
Google restricts their users to download apps from Play Store to provide you more security, because they scan every app for Malware. Also increasingly they are pushing security updates through Google Play Services ti the users with in six weeks. With L Google is also launching Factory Reset Protection, so that if your phone gets stolen, you have full control to disable your phones. Also Privacy is an important part of security, so with L release for the first time Google will have a centralised settings that is called Universal Data controls where users can go and manage their important privacy productions, they can control data that is shared from devices like location history etc.
Google knows that users live in a multi screen world, they use other connected devices like television in living room, wear things on body, and when users get into the car they expect a connected experience. Google wants to work an seamless experience across all these connected devices. With L as well as with chrome Google starts with some foundation principles to evolve their platform to support these new connected experience. And here are a few some Principles:
- Contextually Aware: Google is making everything contextually aware, they wants to understand whether you are at home with your kids and you want to be entertained or you are at work trying to be productive, or may be you are travelling. Google wants to bring right information to you at right time.
- Voice Enable: Google wants the experience to be voice enabled, and as we know Google is building the most advanced voice recognition infra-structure in the world. it Google wants to help users to interact with computer devices in an intuitive way (you are driving, cooking). Google wants voice to be the major source of input.
- Seamless: Google wants the experience should be seamless, it shouldn't matter which device you were using before, you should pick up where you left off.
- Mobile First: Google wants to make sure that all these connected experiences work base on your smartphone, be it your wearables , be it your car or your television.
So Both with L release and chrome Google brings the whole set of new experiences to many connected screens around you soon. really Google is doing great job with security and connected experiences, these features are most wanted now a days. What do you think about these features?
