Why Google is killing off the Pixel SlateGoogle is killing off its Pixel line of homespun tablet hardware. Now, just to be 100% crystal clear, Google is still going to be making Pixel Phones and Pixel Laptops, Home Max and Chromecast Ultra, Nest Thermostats and Nest Cams. But the Pixel Slate. Yeah. That, it seems, has to die.
Computerworld had the story first:
Google's decided to step away from its self-made tablets and focus instead on the laptop form.
A Google spokesperson directly confirmed all of these details to me. The news was revealed at an internal company meeting on Wednesday, and Google is currently working to reassign employees who were focused on the abandoned projects onto other areas. Many of them, I'm told, have already shifted over to the laptop side of that same self-made hardware division.
Then, as everyone from tech media to tech YouTube to tech Twitter was furiously, "What…? No. What…? No. What… NO?"-ing the story from blog to video, Google, the same Google that, based...
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Why Google is killing off the Pixel Slate
