The Android Detour ⇥ stratechery.com

Ben Thompson, on the almost complete lack of Android from this year’s very long Google I/O keynote:

For Google, Android was a detour from their focus on owning and dominating web services; it ensured that those services would be freely accessible in this new world of computing, including on the iPhones and iPads that were used liberally in nearly every keynote demo. And, now that Android is successful, Google is back to focusing on “the best of Google”.