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Google Hardware Makes Cuts To Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future. Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.
You could also call the "laptop and tablet" division the "Chrome OS" division. Both the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate ran Chrome OS, and they are the company's only products supporting that operating system. Is Chrome OS going to be OK? BI notes that manufacturing roles in the hardware division haven't changed, so in the short-term, Google's product lineup is likely to keep going. The report says that Google had "a bunch of stuff in the works" that now probably won't see the light of day. The move comes after the group received pressure to turn Google Hardware into "a real business" from higher-ups at Google/Alphabet. It's easy to imagine that the laptops and tablets -- which are Google Hardware's most expensive products -- were selling the worst.
You could also call the "laptop and tablet" division the "Chrome OS" division. Both the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate ran Chrome OS, and they are the company's only products supporting that operating system. Is Chrome OS going to be OK? BI notes that manufacturing roles in the hardware division haven't changed, so in the short-term, Google's product lineup is likely to keep going. The report says that Google had "a bunch of stuff in the works" that now probably won't see the light of day. The move comes after the group received pressure to turn Google Hardware into "a real business" from higher-ups at Google/Alphabet. It's easy to imagine that the laptops and tablets -- which are Google Hardware's most expensive products -- were selling the worst.
this is utterly disgusting. this is racist. this is hateful. this means that anonymous, usenet and comments everywhere need to be banned and vpns and dissenter need to be banned.
its time to end this tyranny of hate!
Microsoft adopts Chrome software, maybe Google's adopting Surface hardware?
While at Google, working on Chrome team, we could get a Chromebook Pixel (the original ones) to use and "eat the dogfood". Lovely device, even when it was like four year old, so when I left I set out to replace it. I ended up with an Asus Chromebook Flip C302A, the second option was a Samsung Chromebook Pro. Why not a newer Chromebook Pixel or Pixelbook? Because they cost 2x as much for minimal advantage.
Do I wish I had 8GB of RAM? Sure! But 8GB of RAM runs around $60. If they had had an offering in the $600 range, or maybe $700, I'd have probably went for it.
Unfortunately, they have the last laugh, since Apple has decided to cripple their laptop keyboard and port arrays, so now I find myself with Windows laptops in the house. Sigh.
Nah, this is just what happens here on Slashdot when anyone mentions a hosts file. This thing wakes up grumpy, slinging obnoxious profanities around. It's really not a big deal. So long as no one responds to it. Shit, if you respond to it, it will begin hunting you. Each time you post something, it will wake up again, grumpy, as usual.
Lucky for you and me, we posted anonymously.
Search, Maps, Gmail, Youtube, Android.
I don't know why they bother with hardware, they may as well try making cars .....
oh nooo...
Still, it's better than Kendall's boring breathless no-life fangirlism. And it gives the nazis something to do while they wait for Trump to hang.
Turns out that all Google projects are really just 20% side projects at this point, if someone takes up racketball an entire hardware line is out.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
is all about the ads.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Curious. What is it like to be an annoying imbecile pest like you trying to spread your clear personal misery of yours onto others as you do? Especially guys that do good things like raymorris and APK?
Attention deficit disorder. Google seems to have lost the ability to see any project through from beginning to end. I look forward to the Google console fiasco, should be about as popular as Google+ given the depth to which Google Smart People[tm] tend to understand or care about actual people.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
SJW weaklings, like those stalking raymorris, APK, SuperKendall who all do well, hate anyone that can do what they can't doing good things others like as those men do. Those harassing APK, SuperKendall and raymorris are deficients. They know it about themselves so they hate themselves and those who are their superiors on every front possible in raymorris, APK, SuperKendall. Pure envy of the weakling shows itself by their reprehensible actions against guys doing well. It is that simple. It is that obvious.
"Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month."
Google expects that it won't work with GSuite accounts. Quoting Random Google Employee "fuck paying customers".
In an effort to expedite their product lifecycle, Google expects to deprecate the new gaming service by July and completely fuck over customers by pulling the plug in November.
GNAA, swastikas, anti trump creimer kendall etc, might all be one..
Pixelbook or Pixel Slate to work reliably (more than a year for the Pixelbook), maybe hardware's not the right niche for them.
No, I'm pretty sure they're basically memes. One particular run of them might be one person, but, APK aside (he's real), they're picked up by whoever wants to troll that day.
SuperKendall lives in your head rent free, you hasbara maggot.
Soon enough Tel Aviv will be razed to the ground and you will put in an ashtray where you belong.
Google's hardware was supposed to *lead* the market, since they control the software and are supposed to be able to attract the best talent, that was supposed to be easy.
Yet they failed.
Material design, too stripped down, products unusable, lacking lots of visual clues to usage.
Designed for Google politics, not customers, who in the Android world wanted Android crippled with a Chrome OS wrapper? Pichai did, the ex ChromeOS lead, now the CEO. Users didn't want a WIMP interface on a tablet OS.
Increase earnings means screwing customers, Google increasingly using customer data against customer wishes. It increases earnings in the short term, but the end result is customers won't buy new products from you. Self driving cars?.... That's nice, how many hidden mic will it have in it? How many ways will you use the 'cars' location and pretend you're not tracking the owner? Why is there such resistance to new Google products? Because they're Google products.
They CANNOT make the best product, this is an ADMISSION of that failure. They do not understand what the market needs, they make products that flop in the market. Pixel.
So Pichai is cutting costs, a short term strategy.When you've grown earnings that way, and costs are at zero what next? You try to sell half assed search to China?
New CEO is needed.
Microsoft thought they could make a phone...
And Google thought they could make a laptop?
When was the last time when a new tablet-centric feature was introduced to Android OS? We don't remember. We know that a lot of third-party apps don't have a tablet-optimized interface, but how come google has done nothing about it? For example, they could have configured the app store so that search results down-rank apps that does not have a tablet enhanced GUI when you do a search from tablet. Instead, Google spent promising us to bring ChromeOS to tablets, and the end-result was underwhelming.