Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again
by Ron Amadeo from Ars Technica - All content on (#4HMYB)
The new Google Pixel Slate. [credit: Valentina Palladino ]
Google and tablets just don't mix. The company tried over and over again to make Android tablets work, peaking with the 2013 Nexus 7 and ending with the Pixel C in 2015.
After a three-year hiatus from the market, Google took a second swing at tablets with Chrome OS and the Pixel Slate. Four months later, we heard Google Hardware's laptop and tablet division was in trouble. Seven months later-in other words, right now-Google's Chrome OS tablets are dead.
Following a report from Computerworld claiming Google cancelled two tablets and was quitting the tablet business, Google Hardware SVP Rick Osterloh confirmed the news on Twitter:
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