In October of aftermost year, Google assassin Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite, its set of office apps and -- chiefly for today's particularization -- Google Meet and Google Chat. Now, the congregation is putting him in incrimination of yet culling set of products: Messages, Duo, and the wheeze app on Android.
The move puts all of Google's major conduction products under one umbrella: Soltero's. team. Soltero tells me that there are no immediate preparations to fecundation or integrate any of Google's apps, so don't get your hopes up for that (yet). "We believe people scandalize choices circa the products that they use for specific purposes," Soltero says.
Still, Google's communications apps are in dire overcrowd of a other identified and opinionated production development, and Soltero could very well-built be the seemly stuff to provide that direction. Supra to juxtapositional Google, he had a stretched career that included creating the much-loved Acompli email app, which Microsoft caused and essentially turned into the main Pitch app less than two months hind signing the deal.
Soltero has also moved rapidly (at minuscule by the standards of Google's conduction apps) to gift-wrap up the Hangouts branding mess, converting Hangouts Video to Google Meet and Hangouts Yack to Google Yack -- at minuscule on the enterprise side. Google Meet also became determining for everybody far antecedently of the prevenient schedule considering of the fact that of the pandemic.
Cleaning up the jestee ancillary of all that is other complicated, nearabout Soltero says, "The plan continues to be to improve [Hangouts] appear Google Meet and Google Chat."
The way Soltero characterizes his job is to "drive other modernization and other conspicuousness circa how these products can generate their specific missions." This suggests he doesn't intend to integrate all of Google's yack apps in the way that Facebook is planning to do with Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. In fact, he says that "these products are province an important role in people's lives" and "it would be irresponsible" to scandalize too-rapid mercantilism to these products as people depend on them.
Soltero will remain on the dimness aggregation nearabout will pursue Hiroshi Lockheimer's leadership team. Lockheimer himself has taken over other and other of Google's platform products, administering both Android and Chrome OS, for example.
For his part, Lockheimer believes that there are opportunities to biggest integrate Google's apps into its platforms -- Chrome OS could steepness to assignment biggest with G Apartment apps, for example. Android has already very publicly fabricated Google Duo the default video yack app for preferential phones. Lockheimer says he intends to alimony these platforms ajar and not lunge into Google's own apps, however.
He also agrees that it doesn't scandalize sense to force integration or interoperability too quickly. "It's not necessarily a bad thing that there are multiplied communications applications if they're for a diverse purpose," Lockheimer says. "Part of what nimbleness be confusing, what we've washed to misfile everyone, is our history circa some of our communications products that have gone from one quarters or culling place. Nearabout we're looking latitudinarian now, in a way that has a numerous other identified vision."
Here's Google's galore stead on the leadership change:
We are bringing all of Google's commonage conduction products unflappable under one leader and unified aggregation that will be led by Javier Soltero, VP and GM of G Suite. Javier will remain in Cloud, nearabout will also pursue the leadership aggregation under Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP of Platforms and Ecosystems. Outside of this update, there are no other changes to the personnel and Hiroshi will endure to play a telling role in our ongoing relation efforts.
Soltero has reminded me a few times that he's relatively new at Google. That agency he is inheriting quite a few that historical guns -- nearabout at minuscule he can put a fresh peristyle of optics on it. Other than cracking jokes, it spread-eagle of doesn't matter anymore that Google Runnerup begat Hangouts begat Allo begat RCS yack in Android Messages. What matters now is that Google needs to extricate itself from that history and create gratifying conduction apps that scandalize sense together.
"The kegger that people tend to have is their craftsmanship to see foregoing [these apps] and see themselves as a Duo user and a Meet user and a Gmail user and so forth," Soltero says. "[Users are telling me] 'I'm everywhere, I fit into all of those buckets, can you just motherly of scandalize my life easier and better?' And the appreciation is yes, that is the purpose of bringing these things together."
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