The importance of thinking big, the big picture, scale, a product transcending products (a.k.a. a platform):
I’d much rather be the guy that does a platform that’s capable of running on multiple companies’ phones than just focusing on a single product.
A single product is going to have, eventually, limitations. Even if that was two products that’s going to have limitations. But if it’s a hundred products, now we’re getting somewhere, to the scale at which Google thinks people want to access information.
Proactively anticipating tectonic shifts in the landscape that would create a problem, and proactively attacking the problem now:
We look at it first from the scale perspective. The mission here is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and relevant. So the accessible part: think of a world in which you are somehow prevented from accessing the information you want. When I go to a hotel room and pay the $19.95 to get on the Internet and they have some firewall that doesn’t let me get to my Exchange server, it makes me berserk.
I look at things–and Google looks at things–in (terms of) how could the landscape change in such a way that consumers who want to access Google services can’t?
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