# Pichai takes product leadership of Android and Chrome

Date: 2013

## The fact

In March 2013 Google put [Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai) over Android as well as Chrome, a completed product-office instrument before the CEO appointment.

## Context

Neighbouring Chrome 2008 is the prior product. Neighbouring CEO 2015 is later office. He did not write a Google board minute as CEO that day.

Chrome 2008 is neighbouring product. CEO 2015 is later office. Pixel 2016 is later hardware.

Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

Google carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed dual-OS/browser remit is a mobile-platform instrument with later Play-store costs stored separately.

## What is established and what is not

Established: March 2013 Android-and-Chrome remit, independently reported.

Not established: that he founded Android, or a unique later Play-commission coefficient from the re-org note.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He accepted. Android engineers continued. Carriers shipped. He did not sit as the 2005 Android Inc. buyer.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Pichai takes product leadership of Android and Chrome, not a later speech about Pichai takes product leadership of Android and Chrome.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Pichai takes product leadership of Android and Chrome on 2013-03-13 is not a licence to treat every later Google communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Pichai takes product leadership of Android and Chrome into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Page assigned the remit. He accepted. Android engineers continued. Carriers shipped. He did not sit as the 2005 Android Inc. buyer. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Digital-Platform Power Concentration: https://factrail.ai/drivers/digital-platform-power-concentration

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-android-pichai-idUSBRE92C0K4
- https://blog.google/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-android-2013