Not content with its dominance of the internet search market and the smart phone market, Google wants to be everywhere. Google wants to dominate your car, your living room, and your wearables. Google claims that there are one billion users of Android devices.
At the seventh annual Google (GOOG) I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google introduced a lot of new goodies, but none of them solve the real immediate problem.
Ahead of the presumed iWatch from Apple (AAPL), Google has made the first Android Wear watches available now. G Watch from LG and Gear Live from Samsung, both running Android Wear operating system, present a unified approach to wearables. These watches are not stand alone but require an Android phone to function.
On June 25, I wrote on Forbes.com that Microsoft (MSFT), in an attack on Google, was offering 15 GB of cloud storage for free and reducing the price of 200 GB of storage from $11.49 to $3.99 per month. Now Google has responded with $10 per month unlimited cloud storage. The only limitation is that the file size cannot exceed 5 terabytes, a size that is so large that most consumers will never need it. In a further move to attract Microsoft customers, Google is making it easier to edit Office documents and save in Word format.
After its previous failed attempt at TV, Google is at it again with Android TV. Android TV will encompass a range of smart TVs and set top boxes that will respond to voice commands.
Google claims that 25 car brands will ship Android Auto, which will bring Android functionality to a touch screen in a car.
