Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIndia
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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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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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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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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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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.
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My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.
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We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.
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We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we've always supported other partners.