Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIndia
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Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.
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One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.
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There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.
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There's been a big evolution since the days of personal computing. People had a concept of one computing device per family or maybe per person. We've clearly evolved to computing devices becoming more personal.
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For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
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Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.
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The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.
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Custom buttons go to the heart of the personalization we've done. We wanted a scalable way by which each user could customize the toolbar in meaningful way.
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Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.
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I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I'm doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I'm doing.
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We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.
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It could turn out to be that there is opportunity for us to reach more people, as well as for Webmasters to reach more users. We just want users to define what's meaningful to them.
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Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.
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One of the areas we wanted to focus on was to empower users more.