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A look at Google's “ambient computing” strategy, a bid to unify its disparate hardware lines, led by the Pixel team

Making ambient computing happen is forcing Google to change how it does everything  —  The story of this year's Google I/O actually started three years ago.

The Verge David Pierce

Discussion

  • @reckless Nilay Patel on x
    Here's @pierce with a deep look at how Google is restructuring how it works to focus and built an ambient computing ecosystem. Biggest change: the Pixel team is now talking to the Android team directly. https://t.co/nXi8F0FBH2 https://t.co/QXlIE8DR3O
  • @caseynewton Casey Newton on x
    “Google was becoming a warehouse full of cool stuff rather than an ecosystem.” Nice in-depth look at the road to I/O this year from @pierce https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @pierce David Pierce on x
    I wrote a big story about ambient computing, Google's attempt to build the One True Computer, and why Google's both the best and worst company to pull it off https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @louisgray Louis Gray on x
    “Google I/O feels unusually... coherent this year. Google is trying — harder than I can remember — to build products that not only work well but work well together.” Pixel by Pixel: How Google is Trying to Focus and Ship the Future https://www.theverge.com/... /by @pierce for @Ve…