After Google bought HTC's hardware research and Development Department, the transition to a hardware technology company became clearer. Osterloh, the head of Google's hardware department, said he was interviewed for Recode, despite the fact that Google's main profit is still coming from advertising and web search, but the company has been developing hardware and increasingly valuing hardware products. According to the Recode website, the head of the Google Hardware Department, Rick Osterloh, said Apple was indeed an incredibly powerful company in the hardware world. And Google intends to launch a series of hardware products, including the pixel smartphone, AI camera Google clips and the new intelligent audio and so on; These products are built in Google Intelligent voice assistant Google Assistant. Google is also convinced that Google Assistant is more useful than Apple's intelligent voice assistant Siri. Osterloh points out that Google is now focusing on Google Assistant Center to build products. In other words, Google will continue to develop products that integrate AI or machine learning. Osterloh also explained that Google chose to Google assistant as the center for the main reasons for hardware products are as follows: first, Google Assistant can answer user questions; Second, Google Assistant can play Google's existing search advantages. Osterloh also mentions the Google Home Mini and Google home Max, the two new smart stereos that are built in Google Assistant, and do not advertise the results of voice search in the same way as text ads generated by web searches. But Google does know the questioner's preferences from the questions that users ask. Osterloh points out that while Google's core business is the combination of advertising and web search, Assistant is not an ad-driven intelligent voice attendant. In addition, Osterloh also frankly, the current Google Assistant has not yet established a profit model. Finally Osterloh also expected, in the full screen mobile phone gradually become mainstream trend, 3.5 cm headphone jack design will gradually exit the market. In order to conform to the mainstream trend, Google's brand of mobile phones and Android platform interface design, will also gradually toward the full screen, without Borders and headphone jack development.
