Don’t tell anyone I told you this, but I’m starting to think Google’s got it out for me.

Let me explain: I took last week off, in case you didn’t notice. (What?! You mean your world doesn’t revolve around my presence? How dare!) It was a seemingly quiet week in March — after the big trade shows and before the early spring announcement rush. A fine time for some offline family time…or so I thought.

Then, BAM! Out of nowhere, Google dropped the first developer preview of the upcoming Android “N” release — without warning and without precedent. (These things usually happen at the Google I/O developers’ convention, which is what most of us were expecting this go-round.) Now, I don’t take that much vacation time. So seriously: What are the odds of that happening this one random week when I was tuned out in March?!

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