Usually that just launches the Google Assistant on most new phones.
It's literally just a convention, a design choice. It doesn't really mean anything.
not a protocol issue
It is. There's no way for search engines to join all the servers and index them all, thus there's no way to efficiently find information on them without already being there.
that's insane 😮 did you know that you can get more pizza if you order 2 large pizzas instead of 2 mediums?
He has 2 kids lol. The eldest - Gray Newell, seems to be more into racing than game dev, though.
Even if that's the case that would save time since you have to drive back home to unbox the new phone, and in the meantime it could update.
No way. I don't need someone to frantically scan my items while I barely manage to bag them in time.
Why did I immediately think of Joel upon reading the headline