# Google I/O Wish List

URL: /show/coder-radio/49/
> What we’d like to see come out of Google I/O, and the real changes they need to make to boost Android development to the next level. We’ve got our list, and we’re checking it twice. Plus is there such a thing as a VPS on the cheap? The real improvements Apple needs to make in iOS 7, your feedback and more!

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 49
- Date: 2013-05-13
- Hosts: chris, michael
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/SQVY2nietu0





### Episode Links

### Feedback:

  * [VPS on the cheap?](http://slexy.org/view/s2NdadQixb/index.html)
  * [Sharing a favorite new tool](http://slexy.org/view/s20PwNGBWO/index.html)
  * [A quick QML Correction](http://slexy.org/view/s2bsXRstei/index.html)
  * [Just under the wire!](http://slexy.org/view/s20PfjYr6u/index.html)

### Dev World Hoopla

  * Google IO Predications

    * [What Google I/O should bring for Android hardware lovers | Internet & Media – CNET News](http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57584045-93/what-google-i-o-should-bring-for-android-hardware-lovers/index.html)

> Google's hotly anticipated annual developer conference will kick off in just
> a couple days in San Francisco. And conference-goers and Android fans are
> excited about the possibility of new products the company may announce
> and/or give away.

  * [New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS ](http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/exclusive-sundar-pichai-reveals-his-plans-for-android/index.html)

> So far Pichai, a 40-year old grad of the fabled Indian Institute of
> Technology and later Stanford, has kept his head down and refused all press.
> But as this week’s I/O event approached, he granted WIRED his first
> interview since taking over Android.

  * WWDC Wish List

  * [iOS 7 Launch Likely In WWDC 2013 As Web Traffic From Devices Running Unannounced Apple OS Surge](http://www.ibtimes.com/ios-7-launch-likely-wwdc-2013-web-traffic-devices-running-unannounced-apple-os-surge-1247131/index.html)

> [TechCrunch](http://www.ouya.tv/index.html "OUYA") reported Wednesday that
> [Onswipe](http://www.flickr.com/photos/12278984%40N02/7544549182/index.html), company that specializes in creating tablet-optimized HTML5 websites for
> its customers, has observed "a significant bump" in the number of visits to
> its partner sites — from both iPhones and iPads that apparently run on iOS 7

  * [UDS May 2013 14 May – 16 May 2013](http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/index.html)

  * Ouya Update

  * [Ouya delays retail launch until June 25th to ensure it can meet demand | The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4314938/ouya-retail-launch-delayed-until-june-25/index.html)

> Ouya has revealed it will delay the retail launch of its Android-based
> gaming console by three weeks until June 25th. In an interview with Ouya CEO
> Julie Uhrman.

  * [OUYA Closes $15 Million Round, Sets Up Microconsole Showdown – Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2013/05/09/ouya-closes-15-million-round-delays-launch-to-june-25/index.html)

> [OUYA](http://www.ouya.tv/index.html "OUYA"), the most well-funded andeavily marketed of a number of approaches to TV-based microconsole gaming,
> has announced both a $15 million funding round and a three-week pushback on
> its June 4 retail launch date.
>
> The round, led by Kleiner Perkins, features investment from graphics company
> NVIDIA (which is marketing its new mobile processors heavily on theironsole-like gaming performance, most obviously in their proof-of-concept
> Project Shield console, and which supplies the Tegra 3 mobile processor
> powering the OUYA), the Mayfield Fund, Shasta Ventures and Ocean Partners.
> This nearly doubles the $8.5 million funding the OUYA console raised in its
> July 2012 Kickstarter campaign. Kleiner Perkins' [Bing
> Gordon](http://www.forbes.com/profile/bing-gordon/index.html), an EA veteranurrently on the board of Zynga, will also join the OUYA board.