With the release of Google's App Inventor for Android, though still officially in beta, the company sought to make app development "simple but powerful" so that teachers could create study tips and quizzes, anyone could create geographic information systems (GIS) to help people find their way to some destination, and people could communicate over the web and "have the app read the incoming texts aloud to you." Moving Information Into the Cloud Andrew McLaughlin, Google's head of global public policy and government affairs, believes that "one of the most important transformations the federal government will go through in the next decade is what's called a shift to cloud computing; treating computer storage and processing like a commodity--like water or electricity--and allowing people to build applications on top of the infrastructure in a very flexible, open, and powerful way."