It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com)

Two variants of the Pixel Slate, a tablet-laptop hybrid that Google unveiled last year, have been "out of stock" for months now, leading many to believe that Google may have quietly gotten rid of them. From a report: [The Pixel Slate that are powered by the Celeron processor] are nowhere to be seen. They've been out of stock on the Google Store -- the only place these models were very briefly available -- since shortly after launch, four months ago. The $599 and $699 versions of the Pixel Slate brought sub-iPad Pro pricing to Google's prosumer tablet, even if it turned out that the tablet itself beat the iPad in pretty much no sense that mattered. Marques Brownlee, typically known for his easy-going takes and willingness to embrace misunderstood tech products, basically called the cheaper Celeron Slate a turd. This was not a good look for Google. Shortly after that, the Celeron Pixel Slate showed up as sold out on the Google Store, and that status hasn't changed since.

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And this is a surprise how?

[Sebby]

Google kills off pretty much anything they put out.

Re:And this is a surprise how?

[EvilSS]

Google kills off pretty much anything they put out.

To be fair, they haven't put out much worth keeping lately.

Re:And this is a surprise how?

[rtb61]

Why is that fair, think of the people man, think of the people. Each time Google puts out a crap product and then kills it because it is a crap product, there are millions of people who get sucked into that crap product experience and then after all their trials and troubles, Google rather than fixing it, just meh, shuts it down and wanders off like nothing happened. Those users were used, crash test dummies, to save Google money on testing the product, just getting users to test it for Google at their own expense, man, that is just plain nasty as.

Why does Google put out so much shite, well it is pretty clear by now, they a a locked in believer of free user testing, let the suckers do it for free, rather than Google pay for it, which pretty much makes them a pack of shitty trolls, trolling their user base with shitty products.