This makes me nervous about Google&#x27;s long-term prospects. There just aren&#x27;t any new ideas here. Pichai has been very focused on mobile, and that&#x27;s not a bad idea exactly, but it&#x27;s just riding a wave created by Apple almost ten years ago. He&#x27;s now starting to talk about virtual assistants, but that was kicked off by Siri&#x27;s launch, almost five years ago. To have long-term success, Google will need to develop genuinely new ideas, ones that not everybody has already heard about. You can&#x27;t be the biggest player in technology if you never take any risks.<p>(disclaimer: former Google employee here)