The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
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Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#2I was strongly considering the Pixel Tablet to run it with grpahene os as a sort of secure terminal for banking, mail, some chat messengers. But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it. Seeing the insides shows that was a good decision. That is chinesium tablet level of design. I cannot fathom why Google is so unwilling to take the Android Tablet Market seriously.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#3This looks like a gather what hasn't been completely destroyed after our failure to properly integrate Nest and try to throw it out of the door operation. It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#4This looks like a gather what hasn't been completely destroyed after our failure to properly integrate Nest and try to throw it out of the door operation. It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.
> It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.
I agree that the companies look largely incompatible, but it looks like it does work? An acquisition that keeps releasing products after the merge is pretty rare and is usually considered a success
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#5This looks like a gather what hasn't been completely destroyed after our failure to properly integrate Nest and try to throw it out of the door operation. It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.
> It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level. I agree that the companies look largely incompatible, but it looks like it does work? An acquisition that keeps releasing products after the merge is pretty rare and is usually considered a success
Early on Nest were really trying to assert themselves within the wider organization, but whatever remains of them now in new products is name only.
I'm not saying Nest were all good (this is an understatement) but Google have always overrated how far you can go if you cheap out on hardware.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#6Is the sparse interior really that strange, or just a result of components getting more compact and the screen remaining the same size?
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#7I was strongly considering the Pixel Tablet to run it with grpahene os as a sort of secure terminal for banking, mail, some chat messengers. But the weird decision to include that useless speaker stand instead of a keyboard case and stylus and the price kept me off it. Seeing the insides shows that was a good decision. That is chinesium tablet level of design. I cannot fathom why Google is so unwilling to take the An…
Products this strange are an indication that the company has become so large and stagnant that its products are shaped largely by internal political battles.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#8Am I supposed to care? My laptop is also mostly empty by volume. That's why it weights 1kg. This author's daily crusade to say something, anything negative about a Google product is really obnoxious.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#9Isn’t the reason for the empty space just because it’s a tablet — by which I mean that the dimensions are determined by a large screen? Phones are dense inside because they have to be small.
Re: The Pixel Tablet is just a few spare parts in a half-empty body
#10This looks like a gather what hasn't been completely destroyed after our failure to properly integrate Nest and try to throw it out of the door operation. It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level.
> It's clear at this point that acquisition didn't work and the companies were incompatible with each other on basically every level. I agree that the companies look largely incompatible, but it looks like it does work? An acquisition that keeps releasing products after the merge is pretty rare and is usually considered a success
A product like this is a sign of internal rot. It's not bad enough to be a clear swansong for whatever remains of Nest, but it's a bad omen for Google's (non-pixel phone) product development.
I have been in the trenches at a company that made a startup acquisition, then tried to take the startup's tech and integrate it with their own IP to make a new product. I got the hell out before I could be blamed for the imminent failure. It wasn't pretty.