Watching Google watching world - Go Sumit!

My Google mobile colleague and friend Sumit Agarwal seems to have brought down the house at a recent Informa event as evidenced by this post by David Wood, CTO of Symbian.

David's source of awe was both the content of Sumit's talk (summarized below) combined with his usual flair in demos (Steve Jobs has a long way to go!)

"Interspersed among the demos and the statistics, Sumit described elements of Google's underlying philosophy for success with mobile services:

• "Ignore the limitations of today": don't allow your thinking to be constrained by the shortcomings of present-day devices and networks;
• "Navigate to where the puck will be": have the confidence to prepare services that will flourish once the devices and networks improve;
• "Arm users with the data to make decisions": instead of limiting what users are allowed to do on their devices, provide them with information about what various applications and services will do, and leave it to the users to decide whether they will install and use individual applications;
• "Dare to delight" the user, rather than always seeking to ensure order and predictability at all times;
• "Accept downside", when experiments occasionally go wrong."

A video of Sumit showing off his wares to Scoble on FastTV is below