On paper, this sounds amazing. Like "out of sci-fi books" amazing. The caveat, though? I very much doubt Google has the capacity to execute this properly. And we'll get another half-baked attempt at reskinning Chromium and/or Android.
It doesn't reliably integrate with Google Maps.
I can't trust it for basic shopping tasks because it doesn't reliably evaluate stated criteria. I can't even ask it if a specific web store has a specific item in stock and trust the answer.
Google hasn't gotten the bare-ass basics right. They're not about to "make apps irrelevant as a concept".
> [W]e'll get another half-baked attempt at reskinning Chromium and/or Android.
100%!
This kind of criticism is unpersuasive: "USENET and ftp are fine! Why do I need this monster 'mosaic' thing which needs 8MB of core just to try to see some buggy 'dynamic page' someone threw together where the server is always down anyway!"
New technology is incomplete, rushed to market, inconsistently reliable and rapidly improving. News at 11!
That doesn't mean Googlebook is going to take over the world. But no, you don't get to live in 2019 forever either.
When Google first added Gemini to Sheets, I tried it and it completely hallucinated transaction data on the bank statement I was testing it on. It's worse than incomplete, it's broken and dangerous. But Google gets to slap a disclaimer on Gemini that says "results may be fucked" and they get a pass to ship it.
I have no expectation that Google can improve its new products since everything they've been doing is going in the opposite direction. You're not seeing pushback on embracing new technology, its purely about Google not being trusted to do things well.
The year 2001 called, it was laughing hysterically and I couldn't quite make out what it was saying.
Maybe some day, someone will make a computer with integrated digital assistants that virtually everyone really wants. Maybe that someone will even be Google.
But I wasn't writing sci-fi or putting together a pitch deck on Google's behalf. I was considering the actual technology (and priorities) they have on offer.
I'm just going to point out that NCSA Mosaic was released in 1993, and the hand-wringing over it being an absolute memory pig is more 1999 than 2019.
But your overall point is well-taken.
Really? Because every "normie" I know complains to me about how much they hate AI.
Lots of the the complaints center around it being forced on users, how all information on the web is AI generated anymore, thus can't be trusted, broader issues around how it makes society much less stable (bots, misinformation, fakeporn, and more recently, breaking security). And, of course, those whose jobs are actively being replaced by AI really hate it.
The data centers going up locally are likely to be another avenue for complaints.
It's not an age thing. It seems to be an experience thing. If AI is perceived to have ruined something you like, or otherwise negatively impacted your life, you're going to hate it.
My average "non-tech" friend or acquaintance? Absolutely loves it and is using it daily.
So, not my experience AT ALL.
Most non-tech folks are incredibly skeptical about AI due to the piss-poor brand management of OpenAI and Anthropic—pushing an AGI Skynet post-employment narrative to make the tech feel bigger than it is.
I trust Google (and certainly Apple) to figure some of this stuff out—but nobody wants an LLM, that nobody knows how it operates, to run the show entirely. Heuristically, we may get away with a Human-on-the-loop approach—-not a Human-in-the-loop or Out-of-the-loop approach.
Now generating apps will be game changer. But i dont think it means apps go away. I think we just get better apps, and more open apis (for llms to use).
lol, hardly!
Unless Im missing something, how do you capture this data? It needs to be some sort of UI friendly method, as I dont see my mom chatting with an LLM all day about her dog's location (via GPS) or my dad counting calories through ChatGPT.
How does this sound amazing? What about the specs amaze you?
This seems like every laptop currently made with a browser open to chatgpt/claude/gemini.
How much does this cost? What’s the local compute?
Isn’t the best AI laptop just a $600 Neo? I’m not sure how this is superior and I just read a whole web page about it.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/openai-could-be-making-a-p...
I don't think it's a capacity issue, it's that their whole entire business is advertising and acquiring the user data to feed it. I don't see any reason they would want to execute on this in a way that is meaningfully beneficial for users.
I suppose, my own caveats for some of the responses suggesting people like being advertised to.
