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That's not what the inside of a good tablet looks like though right?

pohl 3y ago
Well, no, but how would a good tablet bring them a large enough increase in ad revenue to make it worth the investment? That’s what the difference in business models naturally leads to, right? There’s no indication that Google is trying to change what kind of company they are, is there?
- drcongo 3y ago
  Exactly.
kibwen 3y ago
This question strikes me as bizarre. What is the causal relationship between the goodness of a tablet and what its inside looks like?
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago
  imagine someone wrote something this silly abour a car - "what is the casual relatio ship between how the performance of the car and what it looks lile under the whood? So what if the engine is a mess, surely thst does not affect how it drives"?
  - kibwen 3y ago
    There's nothing that's a mess about the inside of this tablet, it's just not filled to the brim with stuff that it doesn't need. That's normal, good design.
  - Shish2k 3y ago
    I opened up the hood of a car once and there was loads of empty space inside there. Why are they not filling up every cubic inch of the engine compartment with more pistons, or making the compartment water-tight and then filling it with even more petrol to increase the car’s range? Admittedly I don’t know a single thing about car design, but surely all of that empty space is an indicator of poor design right?
  - f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
    Have you seen an engine compartment of the Tesla? It's empty! So much empty space. Am I paying for this space? Oh no!
itsoktocry 3y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but: I bought a Pixel Tablet. It is good. The speaker/charger thing actually pretty useful (I have it on my desk as another screen, sound is decent). I've owned a few Android tablets. This has been the best. They never feel as good as an iPad, but that's normal; hard to beat Apple there. But I have no desire to get back into the Apple ecosystem, I now actively avoid it.
- jwells89 3y ago
  The frustrating thing is that Google has made a tablet that had iPad-level or very close fit and finish, and that was the Pixel C. I had one. It felt nice to use. The problem with that tablet is that the software was awful, causing issues with accidental touch rejection, WiFi flakiness, somewhat frequent hard crashing, etc. They had the hardware, all they had to do was fix the software. Instead they quit making Android tablets until the subject of this article was released.
  - itsoktocry 3y ago
    >Instead they quit making Android tablets until the subject of this article was released. Which is why I jumped on the Pixel Tablet when it came out. The Android tablet scene kinda sucks. I guess the Samsungs are good, but I'm not interested in their custom OS bloat and they're also pricey. Again, the iPad is still the king here, no doubt. But this tablet is the best Android one I've used.
  - dmitrygr 3y ago
    The reason that Pixel C was so uncharacteristically good for a google tablet is that the usual suspects in the Android team had basically no part in designing it and making it. It was a ChromeOS team project meant to run ChromeOS, until the 11th hour when an edict forced it to run android. This can be seen in many ways, including in the way it boots, the existence of the standard chrome ec, etc...

pohl 3y ago

Well, no, but how would a good tablet bring them a large enough increase in ad revenue to make it worth the investment? That’s what the difference in business models naturally leads to, right? There’s no indication that Google is trying to change what kind of company they are, is there?

drcongo 3y ago
Exactly.

kibwen 3y ago

This question strikes me as bizarre. What is the causal relationship between the goodness of a tablet and what its inside looks like?

ClumsyPilot 3y ago
imagine someone wrote something this silly abour a car - "what is the casual relatio ship between how the performance of the car and what it looks lile under the whood? So what if the engine is a mess, surely thst does not affect how it drives"?
- kibwen 3y ago
  There's nothing that's a mess about the inside of this tablet, it's just not filled to the brim with stuff that it doesn't need. That's normal, good design.
- Shish2k 3y ago
  I opened up the hood of a car once and there was loads of empty space inside there. Why are they not filling up every cubic inch of the engine compartment with more pistons, or making the compartment water-tight and then filling it with even more petrol to increase the car’s range? Admittedly I don’t know a single thing about car design, but surely all of that empty space is an indicator of poor design right?
- f3d46600-b66e 3y ago
  Have you seen an engine compartment of the Tesla? It's empty! So much empty space. Am I paying for this space? Oh no!

itsoktocry 3y ago

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but: I bought a Pixel Tablet. It is good. The speaker/charger thing actually pretty useful (I have it on my desk as another screen, sound is decent). I've owned a few Android tablets. This has been the best. They never feel as good as an iPad, but that's normal; hard to beat Apple there. But I have no desire to get back into the Apple ecosystem, I now actively avoid it.

jwells89 3y ago
The frustrating thing is that Google has made a tablet that had iPad-level or very close fit and finish, and that was the Pixel C. I had one. It felt nice to use. The problem with that tablet is that the software was awful, causing issues with accidental touch rejection, WiFi flakiness, somewhat frequent hard crashing, etc. They had the hardware, all they had to do was fix the software. Instead they quit making Android tablets until the subject of this article was released.
- itsoktocry 3y ago
  >Instead they quit making Android tablets until the subject of this article was released. Which is why I jumped on the Pixel Tablet when it came out. The Android tablet scene kinda sucks. I guess the Samsungs are good, but I'm not interested in their custom OS bloat and they're also pricey. Again, the iPad is still the king here, no doubt. But this tablet is the best Android one I've used.
- dmitrygr 3y ago
  The reason that Pixel C was so uncharacteristically good for a google tablet is that the usual suspects in the Android team had basically no part in designing it and making it. It was a ChromeOS team project meant to run ChromeOS, until the 11th hour when an edict forced it to run android. This can be seen in many ways, including in the way it boots, the existence of the standard chrome ec, etc...