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Google Hardware Makes Cuts to Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products

posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-programmers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb? dept.

Phoenix666 writes in with a story from Ars Technica:

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as causing "roadmap cutbacks" and that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

[...] Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.

Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:59AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:59AM (#814014)

    Google is associated with free stuff in most people's minds. Search engine, youtube, browsers, email. Free=Cheap. Google hardware=more expensive than apple (at least, to most people, because they're getting phones through contract rather than paying outright) without the "everybody else is doing it" allure. Also android="cheap and shitty" to the man-on-the-street, chromebooks="cheap and shitty". Premium android phones and chromebooks that are expensive don't even get a second look.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:47PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @02:47PM (#814227) Journal

    Other companies have been putting out Chromebooks in the price/spec range of Pixelbook (various options from Acer, HP, and others). Google isn't the only game in town if you want a premium Chromebook.

    My $100 machine works well, and the 2 GB of RAM actually works better now after OS updates than it used to a couple years ago. But I will be looking to quadruple that RAM at some point. With the price of DDR4 RAM crashing this year, I might have some good, cheap options by next year.

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