On the wrist: Here’s Sundar Pichai wearing the Pixel Watch [Gallery] - 9to5Google

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Sundar Pichai talked with Kara Swisher astatine the 2022 Code Conference this evening successful a wide-ranging interrogation that spanned productivity, competition, and M&A, portion the Alphabet and Google CEO was seen wearing the Pixel Watch.

Pichai, who usually does not deterioration a ticker of immoderate benignant successful public, had the golden Pixel Watch with a yellowish (“Lemongrass”) band. This peculiar combo is already advertised connected the Google Store. The always-on show was enabled with a ticker look that we antecedently spotted. It features ample numerals for the clip with a complication slot supra and 3 circular ones below.

More and much of the Pixel Watch became disposable implicit the people of the implicit 50 infinitesimal interview, and — from a broadside space — looks rather thick, particularly the bottommost dome made from recycled stainless steel. One leaked measurement taken with calipers said it comes successful astatine implicit 14mm (and with an implicit 40mm diameter).

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Meanwhile, the vessel cap-style crown was not that disposable from afar, nor was the broadside fastener conscionable supra it. Google volition stock much details astir the Pixel Watch and Pixel 7 astatine its October 6 hardware event.

Besides (Pixel) ticker spotting, Sundar Pichai said the “aligning [of YouTube Music and Google Play Music] into 1 product” was an example of productivity improvements the institution is moving towards, particularly fixed current economical trends. Streamlining decision-making was different example, portion Swisher asked if there’s immoderate 1 portion of the institution that isn’t doing well. Pichai had the pursuing to say, portion citing Google+ arsenic thing that was axed years earlier:

At immoderate fixed time, you whitethorn look astatine immoderate task and accidental this is amended done otherwise oregon idiosyncratic extracurricular is doing better. If you arsenic a institution don’t deliberation you’re doing thing well, you shouldn’t beryllium successful it for the involvement of being successful it, right?

However, helium defended the societal web arsenic resulting successful Google Photos.

Here's Sundar Pichai wearing the Pixel Watch [Gallery]

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In presumption of advertizing competition, helium cited however Apple and TikTok are growing, portion name-checking the Microsoft and Netflix deal for the streaming service’s ad-supported tier.

Swisher asked whether Google is making less mergers & acquisitions, and Pichai cited Fitbit (and however it would beryllium connected the Pixel Watch) earlier sharing his high-level thoughts:

We lone privation to bargain something, which we deliberation is bully and fundamentally, america by bringing it wrong the institution tin physique connected it and bash thing much with it.