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Google Abandoning Pixel Slate 2 and Other Tablets

posted by martyb on Friday June 21 2019, @03:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the tabled-tablets dept.

takyon writes:

Google says it's done making tablets and cancels two unreleased products

Google will not be launching a sequel to last year's Pixel Slate tablet, according to Business Insider and Computer World, and will instead focus its Chrome OS hardware efforts on traditional laptop devices like the Pixelbook. "For Google's first-party hardware efforts, we'll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and will continue to support Pixel Slate," a spokesperson told Business Insider.

[...] Google went so far as to reveal that it has axed two in-development tablet products, moving the employees who had been working on them to other areas of the company. (Most have apparently joined the Pixelbook team.) The tablets were both smaller in size than the Pixel Slate and were planned for release "sometime after 2019." But disappointing quality assurance testing results led Google to completely abandon both devices. Google informed employees of its decision on Wednesday.

Also at TechCrunch.

Previously: Google Neglecting or Exiting the Android Tablet Business?
Google Hardware Makes Cuts to Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products
Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:07PM (#858591)

    So they can spend a billion bozo bux on housing.

    • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday June 21 2019, @05:39PM

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday June 21 2019, @05:39PM (#858622) Homepage Journal

      So they can spend a billion bozo bux on housing.

      I wish they would spend a few thousand dollars getting hardware accelerated video working in Chrome on Linux. It's number one on my Linux wish list!

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      jasassin@gmail.com GPG Key ID: 0xE6462C68A9A3DB5A

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:20PM (#858597)

    Larry: Sergey, what project are we going to kill this month?
    Sergey: Can we just give it a rest, Larry?
    Larry: Throw the dart, Sergey. Throw the dart!
    [Sergey throws a dart]
    Larry: Did that land in Newborn Data Tracking?
    Sergey: Almost. Looks like it just caught the edge of ChromeOS Tablets.
    Larry: Whew. For a second there I thought we were going to lose money.
    Sergey: Not this month, Larry. Not this month.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday June 21 2019, @05:26PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday June 21 2019, @05:26PM (#858615)

    I've been looking for a good Android tablet for a long time, and reluctant to pay $1000 for it.

    The new 6+" phones (sub $300) are better tablets than anything I've ever seen on the tablet market. I suppose if you just have to have a 10" screen, they don't get it, but at 6.2", I think I'm just fine with a $160 tablet that can also be a phone if I want to activate a SIM card for it.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 21 2019, @05:35PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @05:35PM (#858620) Journal

    (Not that it affects me so much now that I have a sweet pixelbook . . .)

    Google please bring back the Nexus 7.

    When my Nexus 7 finally broke, I would have replaced it without even a 2nd thought if I could have.

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    Stupid people exist because nothing in the food chain eats them anymore.

    • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Friday June 21 2019, @06:42PM (1 child)

      by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Friday June 21 2019, @06:42PM (#858634) Homepage Journal

      Google please bring back the Nexus 7.

      When my Nexus 7 finally broke, I would have replaced it without even a 2nd thought if I could have.

      eBay?

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday June 21 2019, @09:03PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @09:03PM (#858659) Journal

        eBay

        You've never seen* a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

        (*except perhaps Usenet, 4chan, twitter, facebook)

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