MWC 2010: Google keynote speech summary
Hoofs Apple with New York Times app, gets one back when the app flunks out
Google's Eric Schmidt has just been up on stage at the Mobile World Congress to give the internet giant's keynote speech, which turned out to say very little.
There were no announcements of any particular impact, other than a ham-fisted reminder that all the cloud computing work Google has done is really great, and that you don't appreciate it enough.
Voice searching is a monumental milestone in human history that's being taken for granted, but it'll soon be available in German and within Google Earth, so hopefully it'll find some appreciation in Europe.
A subtle two fingers were held in Apple's direction when a Nexus One was shown using a full Flash 10.1 player in a New York Times app, though it was quickly ditched when the app flunked out live on stage. We had another quick glance at in-browser Flash gaming, but only the exact same thing we saw before.
We'd hoped for some talk of a Nexus Two partnership with Motorola, but Google is evidently keeping its powder dry on that front for now.
Really, Google had to have a strong presence at the Mobile World Congress, but other than sincerely patting the mobile community on the back, it really had very little to say other than "keep buying smartphones".
