Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of hardware, compared the company’s strategy for building devices to search and email. Last year, the company started its “Made By Google” line of hardware products, headlined by the Pixel smartphone. Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. The question of Google’s commitment to hardware is a testament to the challenges of competing against devices made by Apple, Amazon and Samsung. Whether Google’s device push sticks over the long haul remains to be seen, but its checkbook for hardware is still open.

Source: New York Times October 04, 2017 19:41 UTC