I agree, I also can't work out what they were thinking when they announced it like that. They've been completely silent about the Pixel-C since that day despite

I agree, I also can't work out what they were thinking when they announced it like that. They've been completely silent about the Pixel-C since that day despite saying it would ship before the end of the year. Even if they do ship it, the OS is not ready without any multiwindow capability active yet. It seems to me they decided to announce it very early for some reason and with nothing else scheduled until I/O next year, the Android announcement was where they could do that. Of course, they could hardly announce all the rest of the story without tipping their hand, so they just said it would ship with Android. My only good theory is that they are actually quite worried about the converged laptop / tablet space and pulled the Pixel-C forward as PR to somehow counter Microsoft's announcements in that space which happened shortly after. I still don't quite see what they achieved but I can imagine them doing it just to make a statement.