It's not quite a smartphone, not quite a tablet, but it very much represents Microsoft's (and now Google's) ideas about the future of productivity. That prototype would eventually become the Surface Duo, a $1,400 device launching Thursday. The Windows Company was working on a Google device. Almost nobody knew about it, both because it was brand new and because it had this weird quirk: It was going to run Android. (Microsoft has been having this idea forĪ very long time.) They'd even built a prototype, though it didn't do much. See, they'd had this idea: Maybe there was room in the market for a mobile device with two screens, that could run two apps side by side, that could be more productive than a smartphone or tablet without feeling like a hefty computer. Panay and a small team within Microsoft had been looking forward to this meeting for a while. Lockheimer said yes to this mysterious invite, and a few minutes later, he found himself in a room with Panos Panay, Microsoft's chief product officer. Someone else at Microsoft wanted to talk to him about something else.
This time, he was in town with a colleague from Google's business development team for a meeting with Microsoft.Īt the end of their regularly scheduled programming, though, someone asked Lockheimer if he had an hour to spare. As Google's head of Android, Chrome and more, Lockheimer meets with practically everyone in tech. When Hiroshi Lockheimer arrived in Redmond, Washington, in the summer of 2019, nothing about the trip seemed unusual.
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