Google confirms it paused work on tablets

It looks like Google is completed with tablets. Not less than, for now.

Google executives instructed Bloomberg that the corporate paused work on a pill overhaul till it could determine a “significant future” for the product class. Alongside that, executives mentioned Google wasn’t engaged on a sensible ring.

One of many causes executives gave for not pushing forward with tablets is that Google thinks folks gained’t carry rather more than simply their telephones for the forseeable future, together with perhaps a watch and earbuds or, presumably, glasses. The corporate instructed that including extra product varieties simply will increase upkeep for finish customers.

The above particulars got here in a long-ranging report from Mark Gurman, greatest identified for his in-depth reporting on Apple. Gurman dived deep into Google’s {hardware} efforts, talking with numerous executives, together with Rick Osterloh, who oversees gadgets and providers at Google, design chief Ivy Ross, and Shakil Barkat, VP of {hardware} engineering at Google.

Whereas it’s unhappy to listen to that Google is completed with tablets for now, it’s not precisely a shock. There have been stories final yr that Google had scrapped plans for a follow-up to the Pixel Pill, so the writing’s been on the wall for some time.

It’s a bummer as a result of the Pixel Pill was, for my part, a extremely sensible piece of {hardware}. I nonetheless use one to at the present time as my major sensible dwelling system, and it’s earned a everlasting spot in my kitchen. It’s successfully my sous chef once I’m cooking, dealing with timers and displaying recipes. In truth, I don’t use it as a pill a lot — I truthfully don’t have a lot use for a pill — however on the uncommon event a pill would turn out to be useful, I can seize the Pixel Pill. It’s an actual bummer that Google’s abandoning a fairly respectable thought so quickly.

Supply: Bloomberg