Jun 30, 2026 · 40 min · 11 segments
Sameer Samat, President of Android at Google, joins host Logan Kilpatrick to discuss Android 17 and what it means to shift from operating systems to intelligence systems. Their conversation covers why…
Sameer SamatGuest
Logan KilpatrickHost
Well, so for the Android show, it's all know your audience, right? And our audience is a lot of people who are using devices and they're excited about technology.
Obviously inside Google and as technologists, we all know that this is a huge moment and it's a platform shift and it's totally changing everything and we're all embracing it.
But then when you talk about it from a consumer standpoint, I think it's really important, we've learned, to not talk about the tech as the lead-in, but rather to talk about the benefit, you know? And so I'll just give you one example, way we learned this.
And it's a really simple concept, right? You hold down the home button on your Android phone, screen lights up.
It could be you know, like the tie that someone's wearing that you're really interested in, or it could be like the beautiful lake that's in this photo that you've got on some social media posts.
Like, where do I buy that? Or how do I get there? Or what is that thing, you know? And this was cool because like, it was really hard to describe these things to Google before.
Like, how do I describe that tie? What would I even say? And same with the lake.
You know what I mean? So this is like a really simple capability, but that feature just took off.
Well, so for the Android show, it's all know your audience, right? And our audience is a lot of people who are using devices and they're excited about technology.
Obviously inside Google and as technologists, we all know that this is a huge moment and it's a platform shift and it's totally changing everything and we're all embracing it.
But then when you talk about it from a consumer standpoint, I think it's really important, we've learned, to not talk about the tech as the lead-in, but rather to talk about the benefit, you know? And so I'll just give you one example, way we learned this.
And it's a really simple concept, right? You hold down the home button on your Android phone, screen lights up.
It could be you know, like the tie that someone's wearing that you're really interested in, or it could be like the beautiful lake that's in this photo that you've got on some social media posts.
Like, where do I buy that? Or how do I get there? Or what is that thing, you know? And this was cool because like, it was really hard to describe these things to Google before.
Like, how do I describe that tie? What would I even say? And same with the lake.
You know what I mean? So this is like a really simple capability, but that feature just took off.
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