Sundar Pichai
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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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Android phones in China are more 'Android open source' rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don't have Google Play, etc.
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I think it is going to be hard for individual OEMs to create a platform on top of which people will write content and services and which users will transact.
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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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The major direction we have taken with this version is empowering users to really personalize, configure, and customize the toolbar to the way they'd like it to be.
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It's a very dynamic and quick way to refine queries.
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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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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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We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.
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Android was built to be very, very secure,
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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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What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.
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India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution.
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Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way.