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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We have seen a lot of interest from Chinese developers on Google Play because the extent to which Android is used. If we can figure out a model by which we can serve those users, it would be a privilege to do so. So I don't think of China as a black hole.
services six users version
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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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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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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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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Android was built to be very, very secure,