With its Pixel Watch and tablet, Google is getting serious about its own ecosystem
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Z717)
The Pixel Watch, Google's first smartwatch. | Image: Google This year's Google I/O keynote was filled with hardware announcements, which is unusual considering it's typically a software and services-focused affair. Of these, the most exciting was the news that Google plans to return to the Android tablet market next year and that it's also releasing its first smartwatch - the Pixel Watch - later in 2022.
Google gave a couple of different reasons for its change of heart. But the most interesting of these was a comment from Google's VP of product management Sameer Samat, who talked about the benefits a tablet device could have for the Pixel ecosystem more generally. I think consumer expectations have changed as well over time," Samat said. Phone is certainly super important, but it's also...