This week took place what for many is the event of the year, the Google I / O of 2021. This is where every year the Mountain View company presents its main innovations and improvements to its services. This year, too, Google has put the hardware aside and opted for functionality.
It is because of the latter that perhaps Google's keynote was not as attractive to the user as it was in other years and is that the big G has left many of his fan favorite services and products like Google Pixel, Android tablet and even his streaming video game platform Stadia in the pipeline.
What would we have liked to see in Google I / O in 2021? Well for example all this.
Google Pixel 5a
The Pixel 5 is not officially sold in Spain
This year's keynote is It was the perfect place to present a new Pixel terminal from the company, as this isn't the first time Google has used a Google I / O for this.
After the arrival of the Pixel 5, it would have been great for the big G to present the Pixel 5a, an official terminal that exists and it should arrive this year.
The problem? Those rumors suggest it will only be sold in the US and Japan, then in Spain and as happened with the Pixel 5, we will run out of it again.
Google Stadia
We haven't heard from Stadia about Google I / O
Personally, it was one of my wishes, for Google to talk about one of its newest services, its Stadia cloud gaming platform.
After closing its internal studios, it was an ideal time for Google to announce news about Stadia and confirm that it is still betting on it. Apparently, we will have to keep waiting.
Android Tablet
Hopefully one day an Android rival for the iPad.
Definitive: Google leaves the tablet market. With an increasingly powerful iPad and larger market share, Google has once again forgotten all those users who crave a Pixel tablet in good condition.
During the keynote, Google didn't even specifically mention Android tablets and that the new Android 12 could have been the perfect excuse to add exclusive features to these devices.
Whitechapel processors
Front and back of the alleged Google Pixel, the first device with Google's processor.
And if in the keynote we didn't have any news of the Google Pixel 5a, much less the future Pixel 6 it is rumored to be the first Google terminal with its own processor, called Whitechapel.
This chip is said to be based, of course, on ARM technology and would have 8 cores. Also, it would be produced in a 5 nanometer format and somehow it will be "optimized to work with Google's artificial intelligence technologies". One of the expected advantages in this regard would be a better rendering of the "always on" mode of the Google Assistant on Pixel devices.
