Yesterday was the first day of the Google I/O developer conference, and with that the keynote during which it typically announces new products. 

The majority of the new announcements during yesterday's keynote relates to Google Assistant and Google Home. In summary, Google appears to be addressing my disappointment with the lack of integration with assistant across devices. 

Google is adding notifications to Home in what they call proactive assistance, and adding hands-free calling to phone numbers rather than device to device calling as Amazon recently announced for Echo. I think people will find the ability to make actual phone calls much more appealing.

We did learn a little more about Android O, and the second preview beta is available for more people to install on their Pixel and Nexus 6P phones. Frankly, I don't see much about Android O that would compel me to install the beta at this time. It appears to me that Android O is very much an incremental upgrade rather than a significant feature upgrade such as Nougat did with its support for Assistant and Pixel Launcher.

Notable to me are things not mentioned. Nothing was mentioned about ChromeOS nor the running of Android apps on ChromeOS, which was promised to be more broadly available during the conference last year. We also did not see any new Chromecasts devices or upgrades beyond the Visual Responses being added to Home. 

The conference continues thru today and tomorrow, so there is still time for more announcements, but I found the news from the keynote underwhelming.