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Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it
- cozzyd 4y agoI saw one in the wild for the first time the the other day on an airplane. It looked pretty snazzy (though I prefer my Thinkpad...). Wonder how many they sold... probably not that many if this is my first sighting.
- verdverm 4y agoI've been pretty happy with my Pixelbook Go for a few years. Was hoping for a hardware refresh, this is disappointing Back to the drawing board...
- Melatonic 4y agoThese were always nice but who needs a super powerful and pricey chromebook? The lower tiered models made sense but....
- lupire 4y agoPeople who use the many web apps that today's world is full of.
- syntaxing 4y agoI’m kind of curious if Microsoft Surface makes money. I always thought it was more or less a loss leader. Unlike Apple, Google or Microsoft does not have control over the hardware. Microsoft surface IMO really pushed PC OEM to design out of their typical status quo designs. I thought Pixelbooks were the same idea but I guess Google was looking for the same success they have with pixel phones.
- neodymiumphish 4y agoTheir revenue on the Surface side continues to increase, so even if it's not profitable, it's trending the right way. The amount they've put toward engineering makes me think they'll never give this line up.
- paxys 4y agoIt's very unlikely. You can only make money in hardware by having a high margin or selling at a high volume. Most companies do the latter. Apple does both. Microsoft and Google do neither.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoHeck, has Microsoft made money on the XBOX yet? Or did the XBOX 720 XL X+ OneX turn the corner? ... say, what hardware do MS employees use, anyway?
- sgerenser 4y agoMostly Surface Books and Surface laptops, but for devs that want more horsepower for local development they also offer ThinkPads. Depending on the division Macbooks aren’t uncommon either although they aren’t standard issue.
- paxys 4y agoIf I'm buying a great looking and powerful laptop worth $1300, kneecapping it with ChromeOS is the last thing I'd want. This device never really made sense. Google needs to stick to the low end in this segment if they want any success.
- syntaxing 4y agoAbsolutely agreed. Chromebooks used to be great because of the battery life and low price. Now with MacBook airs, there is nothing else of the same class for the price. The fact the MacBook Air M2 has about 20 hours of usage time is absolutely astounding. A Pixelbook just doesn’t make any sense in 2022.
- Crash0v3rid3 4y agoChromebooks can be considerably cheaper than a MBA.
- kbelder 4y agoYeah, you can get 5 chromebooks for the price of one MBA. Makes a big difference when you're equipping a 30-student classroom. They aren't comparable at all.
- pjmlp 4y agoA proper OS versus a browser, yep not comparable at all.
- syntaxing 4y agoMy comment was directed towards the Pixelbook.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI think most Chromebooks are low cost. I bought a Lenovo Duet 2 last year for about $320 that included a keyboard case and a pen. Linux containers work well, except for slow performance because of inexpensive hardware. Although I mostly use my top of the line Apple gear, if I had to I could do everything I need to do (slowly) on the Duet and a cellphone - a great resource for people on a budget.
- billybuckwheat 4y agoThis isn't a huge surprise. Google was never really a hardware company and, as the article in The Verge points out, Pixelbooks were rather niche pieces of hardware. That said, I still have one of the original Pixelbooks. When I was using it regularly, I found it to be a solid piece of hardware.
- denimnerd42 4y agowish they would have made a separate chromeos that is a full blown well supported linux distro. the implementation of chromeos is quite impressive and so is the google hardware. it’s not like they were making money on these things anyway
- ffggvv 4y agointersting because thats the laptop alot of their engineers use internally
- free652 4y agoarent they switching to hp?
- panda88888 4y agoYes, the Hp elite dragonfly. I think the Pixel chromebooks haven’t been available internally for a while. I still use the Pixelbook I bought myself at home—it is fairly nice and light with 3:2 screen.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoSeems very shortsighted for Google to move away from hardware, might seem smart to cut costs and stop bothering today but it'll seem an extremely poor choice when they find themselves in Microsoft's OS position down the line. Systems are only going to get more and more locked down, Google will be struggling to make enough money on iOS in 10 years when it gets even more restricted and 30% cut of ad sales will be the norm. Current Android OEMs are gonna throw more and more custom stuff on top and begin to deviate to systems they fully control.
- LegitShady 4y agoMaking these horrible value vanity projects to chromeOS isn't productive.
- hulitu 4y agoGoogle moved away from hardware when they sold Motorola to Lenovo. They didn't understood HW anyway.
- vsskanth 4y agoWhat does this say about the future of ChromeOS ? Is the pendulum swinging back to Android ?
- lupire 4y agoChromeOS is extremely popular and deployed by major laptop companies like Lenovo and HP and Acer and Asus.
- CharlesW 4y agoIt's extremely popular in schools, but is it anywhere else? (Not a dig BTW, that's a significant accomplishment.)
- pjmlp 4y agoIn US schools mostly.
- thesuperbigfrog 4y agoChromebooks in US schools seem to be going away. Children in schools where I live now receive cheap, rugged Lenovo laptops that are running locked down Windows 11: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/lenovo/windows-edu-laptops/lenovo-14w/88el10s9990 https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/lenovo/windows-edu-la... Most schools and universities that I know of have also adopted Office 365 for their students and teachers ever since Google abandoned their inexpensive or free education offerings: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/google_free_storage_plan_ends_opinion_column/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/google_free_storage_p... It looks like Google's goals changed and Microsoft took advantage of the opportunity.
- pjmlp 4y agoInterestingly to know. Usually in most places in Europe you still get to use pen and paper, computer is at home thing, or some kind of computer lab. Schools where everyone gets a laptop kind of device, are the exception. Even in COVID times, it up to the family to get them, mostly.
- DrWumbo 4y agoThese were great machines. I would wait till they were 4 years old and then buy them super cheap as my daily driver. 3:2 aspect ratio screens and solid build quality, great battery life from their second device onwards. I got a 2013 pixel in 2017, a 2015 pixel in 2019, and last year I got the 2017 pixelbook. It's a shame that even as a fan of the product I wasn't willing to support it at MSRP or in any way that would have contributed to its success.