And they would probably have passed regardless. No distractions and screens probably means no ads and that's most likely a no no for the former do no evil company.
I suspect that, with their bet on cloud in particular, they're hiring in many places where ads don't matter. Even in the mobile OS world, where ads is eventually where they make some of the money, they have a clear adoption challenge first...
You forgot the other thing they love: humanity-scale dragnet surveillance (to feed "the algorithms"). If it can spy on lots and lots and lots of people, they might still be interested.
