Google's Pichai touts wearables SDK, 'APIs for hardware'

AUSTIN, Texas – Google plans on releasing an Android software developer kit for wearables within two weeks.

He said a big question at Google is how the company will successfully pull off that kind of expansion.

“They’re probably losing at least half of their users,” he said.

Without being specific, he hinted that Nest could be part of that.

“We are thinking hard about the layer which will connect all these devices together,” Pichai said.

“That’s something we will work hard” for.

“Think about it as APIs for hardware,” Pichai said.

“So people can build together in a modular way.”