Sundar Pichai of Google Talks About Phone Intrusion

A Q&A with Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of products.

Americans spend about three hours each day staring at their mobile phones. That’s a lot, but is it too much? Several new companies betting that consumers crave less phone time are offering products like apps that filter messages and jewelry that buzzes only when the most important messages arrive. Pichai speaks at length about how Google products and apps were meant to help provide balance, giving you information with letting you live your life. Pichai oversees most of the company’s core products and is considered the righthand man of Larry Page, Google’s chief executive.