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Google has no long-term strategy for tablets. Best I can tell, every few years some product owners get together to once again do Google's Big Push For Tablets F
by hbn 3y ago
Google has no long-term strategy for tablets. Best I can tell, every few years some product owners get together to once again do Google's Big Push For Tablets For Real This Time We Swear and the initiative goes until they get their promotions and then it's forgotten until the next round a few years later.
If you buy this tablet and like it, don't expect a successor. They'll release something completely unrelated in a few years, it might be running Chrome OS, it might have a keyboard accessory, it might have a pen accessory, it might have absolutely abysmal performance[1]. It's a complete grab bag.
And this applies to basically all Google products and services.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOh6d_r63Bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOh6d_r63Bw
- dmitrygr 3y ago> Best I can tell, every few years some product owners get together to once again do Google's Big Push For Tablets For Real This Time We Swear and the initiative goes until they get their promotions and then it's forgotten until the next round a few years later You are 100% correct. Source: was part of two such pushes while working at goog
- ianai 3y agoYou figure google could ever change their ways? Like if enough backlash hit their products? Anything?
- dmitrygr 3y agoIt would require a change of leadership. The incentives that make this happen come from the top. Until the board and starts firing some of the top leadership, I wouldn’t hope for much change.
- markmark 3y agoI've got an Android phone but I'd never waste my money nor time on an Android tablet knowing Google are going to lose interest in it in six months.
- Gigachad 3y agoThe iPad was my first Apple product. Was super in the android ecosystem at the time but the Android tablets were just non existent. I was so impressed by the ipad, which was second hand, several years old, and still getting updates. Ended up switching to an iPhone and Macbook as well. Feels like Google has been bleeding users for a while by just ignoring tablets for so long.
- vineyardmike 3y agoI hope this docked version does well because I really like the smart home hub meets tablet meets household shared device vision.
- mook 3y agoI'm hopeful that they'll somewhat keep the tablet form factor working because it'll be used when a foldable device is open; it's just a bit bigger. I'm not hopeful enough to go buy a tablet, however.