Its reasoning is pretty weird, though. Google's Pixel Tablet launched back in 2023, and it's been all crickets from the search giant since then on the...
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    12·
    1 年前

    Just watch how in 1-2 years they’ll start another tablet initiative and it will fail because of their inability to execute over a long period without immediate unrealistic results.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      Every 2-3 years some fresh exec at Google looks at the iPad market and nurses a semi at the thought of their bonus for eating some of Apple’s lunch. Surprisingly it turns out that you can’t just invent an iPad competitor from scratch in 6-9mo and have it be actually good, who could have guessed. Then it’s time to throw the entire product line out until the next guy comes along and does the same fucking thing.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      yea, they probably will. i think a lot of people still clinging to a pc but not ‘needing’ windows-exclusive applications would seriously look at a tablet as their only ‘pc’ if it acted and worked a bit more like one when they want or need it to be one. it’s something both google and apple are working on, they just ain’t quite there yet.

  • maus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 年前

    It’s amazing. I am exclusively Android in all but Tablet because Google can’t figure it out and Samsung is… Samsung.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      Samsung is kinda okay as long as you get something like shizuku and use that to enable root management of all of their utter bullshit. Rooting makes them better but then you have to deal with updating the fucking thing by hand using Odin and a laptop, and God help you if you don’t do it perfectly because it’ll end up needing to be entirely wiped.