Can Google catch up to Apple in hardware?

Google Senior Vice President of Hardware Rick Osterloh talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about the company’s newly announced products — the second iteration of high-end Pixel smartphones, wireless headphones called Pixel Buds, an AI-powered camera called Google Clips, new smart home speakers and a new Pixelbook laptop. Osterloh says the unifying theme across all these products is Google Assistant, the company’s previously announced answer to other virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa and Cortana. He also explains why Google did away with the headphone jack on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, why it hasn’t announced a smart watch (at least, not yet) and how Google plans to turn itself into a high-end hardware brand.