Google, stop with tablets: Deleted the last two products in development

There are no tablets in Google’s plans for the near future, and the two models he was working on were eliminated from the roadmaps. The company confirmed the two news at Computerworld, after snubbing the category for all of 2019. In 2018, instead, it released Pixel Slate (with Chrome OS), working on the development of two smaller models. Since then the choice has come to focus only on notebooks.

According to the source, on June 19 Google announced to employees the end of all development work on tablets (described as devices that are completely separated from a keyboard, or that do not have a physical keyboard), emphasizing that those who were at work on a product of the category will be assigned to another division. The source writes:

” The news was revealed at an internal meeting last Wednesday, and Google is currently working to reassign employees in other areas that have focused on abandoned projects. Many of them have already moved to the notebook branch of the same hardware division. ”

The reasons for the abandonment are not clear, Google has never been able to compete directly with the ” top ” producers, Apple and Samsung, in that particular market segment. After some interesting models in the past, by Google, it seemed clear that the interest of the multinational company was gradually diminishing towards the product category (together with that shown by other producers).

Google will continue to offer support and updates for Pixel Slate until June 2024, and the Chrome OS team will continue to consider both notebooks and tablets with regards to the software aspect. Even if Google ceases to produce tablets, this will not oblige third-party producers to do the same. Big G will focus instead on notebooks, with a new Pixelbook that should arrive by the end of the year.