Well i must admit when google i/o first began...and i read stories and followed liveblogs....I WAS NOT IMPRESSED...I felt that google had let me down. But now reading deeper into jelly bean (aka android 4.1) and looking into some samsung news, who i feel lead the great androif charge. Im not as upset with google as i first was, as a matter of fact im more than impressed. To be honest, from the start the google q will not catch everyones eye, but with gogle tv somewhat failing, i believe firmware updates will bring the q to many families.

Now i/o has brought forth many announcements, from the q...to the nexus tablet...WHich earlier rumors were confirmed it is manufactured by asus...To apps landing on ios (chrome and google+) with i/o having a great outcome all apps on android saw beautiful refreshed, with google receiving the largest overhaul (unless you have jelly bean already in which you saw a great refresh of google maps) Google maps now offers the ability for offline map syncing which is beautiful, i dont think they are the first to do it, but after some tweaks? Im certain they can be the best. Jelly bean itself looks to be a great update fro ice cream sandwich, and with the new integrated technology to smoothen out the entire os im certain all users will be pleased when flicking vigorously through their screens.

Now for the q...my main focal point for this article. The q will pick up where Google TV has been slacking...now can the q battle apple TV? THAT IS THE QUESTION I REALLY NEED ANSWERED. Where Sony has refreshed their Google TV lineup, the Q arrives in a time where ip TV, and home media servers are beginning to either grab our attention, or massively fail. The q logs into your Google play cloud, connects to your YouTube account, and can be controlled by any android device you own ( i need to check if any other versions besides 4.x play nicely with it) The q itself runs 4.x and has on board memory, and of course runs through your WiFi network...what i would've liked to see Google do is pair the speakers with it, instead of sold them separately but i guess it makes sense as this reaches out to everyone, so if you already have a great surround sound system it truly doesn't matter, and with YouTube movie subscription service? It can open the doors for many different ideas. I'm not certain if the usual iptv subscriptions are available, or will be available but netflix, hulu, fios and all other services need to get with Google. Im certain google may want to stray away from 3rd party services as the selling point iss all that they offer in the play store, which even more had been announced through i/o...The play store is really beginning to rival the itunes store as its ammassed 20 billion total downloads, and 1 million android devices are now activated daily....which is mindblowing, im not sure if this is all carrier numbers? or altogether numbers that are being connected through google syncing (i.e. tablets solely on wifi)

Google is shaping up for a strong finish to the year and the nexus 7 tablet will definitely help them, they went the WiFi only route with the device which is a good and bad idea simultaneously, but with most people now having mifi, and other android devices it wont come back to bite them, Google (and i stress this GOOGLE) is looking to take the market from the kindle fire, they aren't taking shots at the ipad yet, but im certain they have a tablet that will come and put apple and the ipad on its heels, it may not be the immediate future, but its great how Google plays their cards. They let companies build android devices, and choose a company from the cream of the crop to headline the next wave of android, or even chrome. When it comes to handsets? Samsung is still the leading candidate, but now asus will help them to knock the tablet market out of the park with the nexus 7. They even went the best route, knowing so many consumers have already ridden the galaxy nexus route and already rolled jelly bean to these consumers, which will then make their friends jealous...Possibly bringing these consumers to android (if they aren't already a part of it) or force them to upgrade sooner...Recently ive even ran into iPhone users who have seen android 4.0 and regretted switching to ios and its restrictive system.

In closing, i/o has piqued my interest of Google, not only as a company, and the owner of the android franchise, but even as an unexplainable force (if that makes sense) and i didn't even mention the glass project as that's all still blueprints and in the works, everything else they previewed happened to be finalized projects...If Google really wanted to take over the world i wouldn't mind, as they may make us safe and bring us all closer together.