Allow me to play Mr.
Obvious for a moment: The Pixel 4 is a phone.
That much is plainly apparent — right?Hang on, though, because there's a twist: This week's Google event, at which the Pixel 4 was officially launched, wasn't really about phones.
It wasn't about laptops, either.
At its core, it wasn't about any hardware, in fact, despite being a "hardware event" in every outward sense.Sure, the physical products may have taken center stage, but those gadgets are ultimately all just vessels for what Google's really trying to sell us.
This week's event was actually all about the Google ecosystem — and, more specifically, the Google Assistant that serves as the nucleus of almost everything Google introduced.