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I was strongly considering the Pixel Tablet to run it with grpahene os as a sort of secure terminal for banking, mail, some chat messengers. But the weird decis

by dtx1 3y ago

I was strongly considering the Pixel Tablet to run it with grpahene os as a sort of secure terminal for banking, mail, some chat messengers. But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it. Seeing the insides shows that was a good decision. That is chinesium tablet level of design. I cannot fathom why Google is so unwilling to take the Android Tablet Market seriously.

PopePompus 3y ago
Products this strange are an indication that the company has become so large and stagnant that its products are shaped largely by internal political battles.
edude03 3y ago
They used to - back in the android 4 days there was strong competition and a number of flagship devices. I’m assuming it’s somewhat of a chicken and egg combined with googles inability to invest in growing products. No one makes good android tablet apps, so there’s a no reason to make android tablets, so there’s no reason to invest in android tablet apps.
Moldoteck 3y ago
You'll be better off with a galaxy s6 lite in this case. It's just a product for different categories of consumers
- dtx1 3y ago
  A Galaxy S6 Lite will never be even remotely secure enough to be considered by the Graphene OS Team as a viable device and is already so old that Samsung barely provides security updates for it. It's not even close to being acceptable for my purposes
itsoktocry 3y ago
>But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it I thought the same thing. I owned a Lenovo tablet with some gimmicky speaker that I never used. However, I bought the Pixel tablet and I'm actually enjoying this speaker. It's useful as a desk stand, sounds alright, it's super easy to pop the tablet on there for charging, the transition between speaker to tablet sound when you grab it works flawlessly. Sure, it's superlative for some people, but it's actually not a bad addition. I use it every day to watch YouTube or listen to music while I work.

by dtx1 3y ago

PopePompus 3y ago

Products this strange are an indication that the company has become so large and stagnant that its products are shaped largely by internal political battles.

edude03 3y ago

They used to - back in the android 4 days there was strong competition and a number of flagship devices. I’m assuming it’s somewhat of a chicken and egg combined with googles inability to invest in growing products. No one makes good android tablet apps, so there’s a no reason to make android tablets, so there’s no reason to invest in android tablet apps.

Moldoteck 3y ago

You'll be better off with a galaxy s6 lite in this case. It's just a product for different categories of consumers

dtx1 3y ago
A Galaxy S6 Lite will never be even remotely secure enough to be considered by the Graphene OS Team as a viable device and is already so old that Samsung barely provides security updates for it. It's not even close to being acceptable for my purposes

itsoktocry 3y ago

>But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it I thought the same thing. I owned a Lenovo tablet with some gimmicky speaker that I never used. However, I bought the Pixel tablet and I'm actually enjoying this speaker. It's useful as a desk stand, sounds alright, it's super easy to pop the tablet on there for charging, the transition between speaker to tablet sound when you grab it works flawlessly. Sure, it's superlative for some people, but it's actually not a bad addition. I use it every day to watch YouTube or listen to music while I work.