I think that's Google being Google and wanting to take over the world. They were never content to rest on their laurels with search. And the feeling that if you're not doing that, you're likely to be left behind. They don't want to age into a company that focuses on its strengths at the expense of doing dangerous things.
Finding a product is kind of incidental. For instance, I think Pixels came out of the need to have a reference platform for Android that Google could control. And now they are pretty good phones and judging by the advertising are at least expected to sell pretty well.
I think that's Google being Google and wanting to take over the world. They were never content to rest on their laurels with search. And the feeling that if you're not doing that, you're likely to be left behind. They don't want to age into a company that focuses on its strengths at the expense of doing dangerous things.
Finding a product is kind of incidental. For instance, I think Pixels came out of the need to have a reference platform for Android that Google could control. And now they are pretty good phones and judging by the advertising are at least expected to sell pretty well.