May 21, 2020 07:00:00

CEO Thunder Pichai talks about unusual cooperation between Google and Apple against new corona virus

Thunder Pichai, who is also the CEO of Google and its parent companyAlphabet, appeared as a guest on the podcast `` The Vergecast '' distributed by the IT news site

The Verge , and Google's against the new coronavirus pandemic We talked about our efforts.

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Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic-The Verge
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Speaking of Google and Apple, we have a relationship of fighting between Android and iOS mobile OS, but we are jointly developing a tracking application for the new anti-corona virus measures.

According to Pichai, the reason for the joint project was that both Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook were aware of the problem and thought they had to do something. Since then, he has jointly held meetings with public health organizations around the world several times a week.

In normal times, this kind of joint effort will take time, but this time it is an urgent matter and we need to interact responsibly with a large number of social institutions. Let's decide '. From the outset, the two CEOs shared the vision of 'clarifying everything'.

As Alphabet, in addition to Google, which is under its umbrella, Verily, a medical science company, is working on measures against the new coronavirus. Regarding this, CEO Pichai, who was questioned between the two companies, said, 'Google may work on health care and sometimes Verily. Sharing resources where necessary will help Google's AI breakthrough. There may be, and Verily may commercialize it. ” In addition, he said, 'It is better to be structurally separated,' because the other side can handle the areas where they are far away from the areas where they should originally do.

In addition to this, we were asked about the smartphone terminal “Pixel” business, and we are investing a lot because it is necessary to advance the high-end area for “evolution of computing”, while the “Android ecosystem” For that reason, entry machines are also important, so I said that we are proceeding with the business in cooperation with the neighborhood.