A look at Google's "ambient computing" strategy, a bid to unify its disparate hardware lines, led by the Pixel team (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge:
A look at Google's “ambient computing” strategy, a bid to unify its disparate hardware lines, led by the Pixel team  —  Making ambient computing happen is forcing Google to change how it does everything  —  The story of this year's Google I/O actually started three years ago.