It must be said, the initial report said that the reason the two devices were cancelled was because they were not passing QA. That seems... quite believable. Th

It must be said, the initial report said that the reason the two devices were cancelled was because they were not passing QA. That seems... quite believable. The Pixel C was a great design for a tablet, amazing aspect ratio that sadly nobody else has copied, looked fantastic... but reliability was terrible. The screen connector was too close to the graphics chip and disconnected (fairly reliably) after about a year, it had a string of early bootloader responsiveness problems, the team promised HDMI output over USB-C and could never get it to work, early screens had response problems etc etc. Google had good aftersales support, but I know a lot of owners who went through at least four of them. I'm not so convinced that this is about tablets. I think it's about more fundamental issues at Google's hardware divisions and their inability to fix reliability issues and engineer in ways that stop them cropping up like Samsung and Apple have (odd exceptions notwithstanding, before you mention keyboards or the Note 7 at me) generally done. It seems like virtually all Google hardware has problems. And I wonder if some of that is because of the Google's seeming inability to maintain long term focus on something. The hardware team will never get as good at Apple at reliability if it's unable to stick to engineering the same product for more than eighteen months. I also suspect this is the end for ChromeOS as a tablet OS. So, in conclusion, Samsung, please make a tablet with a 1:√2 aspect ratio. Please! The Pixel C was the best comic reading tablet ever made.