But next year could be even more significant: On the company's Q3 2020 earnings call, CEO Sundar PichaiHardware is hard, but Google knows it needs to play in this space if it wants to keep directing people back to its core moneymaking products such as search. CEO Sundar Pichai has also said Google has a vision for ambient computing, which will rely on devices such as smart speakers.
Under his watch, Google has launched its own Pixel line of smartphones and branched out into smart home devices and headphones. In 2018, four years after Google purchased smart home company Nest, the division was rolled into the Google hardware team.Canadian smart glasses maker North this year. Could Osterloh resurrect the much-maligned Google Glass in a more socially acceptable form? Watch this space.
Chandra has facilitated a closer integration between Nest devices and Google Assistant, the concierge that powers the company's lineup of smart speakers.Ivy Ross – VP of hardware designGoogle's design guru joined the company's experimental X lab in 2014, where she oversaw development of Google Glass.
Google vice president and general manager Phil Harrison speaks during a Google keynote address announcing a new video gaming streaming service named Stadia.Phil Harrison is a gaming industry veteran with stints running Sony's worldwide game studios and leading Microsoft's Xbox businesses. She joined the company via Nest, where she served as chief financial and operating officer, back when it was its own business under Alphabet. She later jumped over to Google as a VP of the Google Store, global operations, and supply chain.
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