I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of tablet apps that are really just blown up smartphone apps. I'm David Pierce.

So it's Google Iow this week which is Google's developer conference and also the company's biggest launch event of the year.

There's a ton of product news coming out of Iow this week and we're going to get into a lot more of that from the software to the hardware to the services to all the weird stuff Google is working on on Friday show.

But today I want to look at the bigger picture. Google likes to call Iow its state of the union, which is actually a pretty good way of thinking about it.

Google is this huge sprawling decentralized company where teams build lots of things.

Often it seems like nobody seems to know what anybody else is working on.

And then once a year the company tries to pull everything together and figure out what's Google the whole thing the entire company all these hundreds of thousands of people actually up to.

I spent a good chunk of the last week talking to Google executives about that exact question.

And it's funny to do that honestly because you start to hear the same things over and over and over again. For starters, everybody really likes to talk about Google's mission, which is to organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful.

I know this by heart now because Google people won't stop talking about it.

You know, our mission in Android is to bring computing to everyone in the world.

I give Larry and Sergey a lot of credit for coming up with this mission all those years ago.

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