Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

Post by xvector » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

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The odd part is that they developed a successful blueprint for how to beat their existing Gmail product and are apparently walking away from it. Anecdotal, but I don't know anyone who I introduced Inbox to that does not prefer it to standard Gmail. I wish they would focus their consolidation efforts on their awful messaging mess and leave Inbox alone.

Ah, but worry not, they've introduced many of the Inbox features back into Gmail! Except, you know, they didn't implement bundling, probably the single most useful feature of Inbox. (If anyone can't tell, this is incredibly frustrating for me, since Inbox is going away soon.)

Post by supernovae » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:31 PM UTC

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To me it feels like Engineering really delivered on the Pixelbook. That it didn't sell well was a marketing failure (not the first). So higher ups should take a real hard look in the mirror and work on developing a team that can brand and sell good products.

The Pixel slate didn't fair so well in all the reviews though.

Post by supernovae » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

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I may be soon in the market for a new Android tablet. Does anybody have suggestions?

Google just recently abandoned Android and pushed ChromeOS for tablets. Now this, there is just no continuity with Google. Unless you absolutely need Android for some reason, I would recommend the iPad.

Post by lwkl » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

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You are overstating the price differential. I'm seeing $2182 Thinkpad vs $2599 MacBook Pro--choices driven by WQHD display, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. Processor on the Pro is significantly faster, the display on the Mac has slightly higher resolution. Maybe not $400 worth of difference, but certainly almost $200 or so. And I still can't buy an i5 laptop with 32GB of RAM.

Lenovo, like Apple, charges a ridiculous markup on SSDs. However, unlike with a Macbook Pro their laptops are user serviceable. If you want a 1TB SSD and know how to use a screwdriver, you can save $250 by buying the SSD yourself. If you're willing to start with a 256GB SSD and hold off on upgrading until you actually outgrow your storage space, you could save even more.

Post by dv_dt » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:45 PM UTC

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As an Xoogler, I can tell you that promising products that "will never be a billion-dollar business" get killed all the time. $100M in projected revenue? Yawn. Kill it.

The odd part is that this doesn't select for billion-dollar businesses, it selects for billion-dollar businesses that can be developed with revenue growth that doesn't pass through $100m for more than x-years. Essentially billion dollar rev with discontinuous growth through lower revenue - this seems unnecessarily constrained for any business that plans to be around for the long haul.