It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com) 41
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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Why the antisemitism when discussing a Google product?
WTF? Is a Shekel worse than a dollar, a pound, or a euro? Since the product was conceived in the US, it makes sense to use Shekels.
And this is a surprise how? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:And this is a surprise how? (Score:5, Insightful)
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? (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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"A turd" that wins in "no sense that mattered" and is "not a good look". That's a lot of dumping on it, anyone care to explain why?
Watch the video. It looks nice, really nice, but performance is shit. Every time you try to do something, there is massive lag, thanks to Goog using a shitty Celeron processor. It's so bad, blacks don't even want to steal it.
How does a product this bad even get made? I could understand if it was being sold by some fly-by-night company who just started up a short time ago and whose business plan was to sell a bunch of shitty tablets and then disappear before people can ask for their money back.
But this
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Only advertising survives (Score:2)
I wonder why they're so intent on trying to create unrelated products. Why not be happy with the enormous profits from the data mining and advertising, and enjoy the profits? Pay huge dividends if they've got nothing else to invest in.
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I think it's a pride thing. They don't want to think that they're a one trick pony who had an OK product and just happened to be in the right place when Altavista fumbled the ball.
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anti-semitic crapflood (Score:2)
Has anyone noticed how ANY article that's unflattering to Big Brother Google immediately attracts trolls/shills who crapflood the comments with anti-semitic copypasta? It's almost like the Goog employs a dirty PR firm to spread the entirely misleading idea that opposition to Big Brother Google's policies is based on ugly racism.
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It may not be dead.
In its current state it's unusable. Performance is completely unacceptable. Massive lag and unresponsiveness. They said they would fix it with a software update, but it hasn't come yet.
Once they fix the software they may start selling it again. But if they can't fix the software it may be dead, although people who already bought one are kind of screwed.
Hard to know what happened here, Google hardware is usually quite good.
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I look forward to the upcoming sales (Score:3)
on woot, meh and maybe untilgone
Lesson learned, never buy any consumer hardware from google. (except maybe the pixel phones)
It will only end in more unsupported devices, maybe even deliberately bricked by updates taking up space in landfills.
OP2 in the works? (Score:2)
Google partnered with Rockchip to rebadge the RK3399 as the 'OP1' SoC blessed for ChromeOS. That design is now 2 years old; if a newer ARM tablet chip is around the corner then I can understand them dumping Celeron.
(Or maybe it's just the Celery models weren't selling due to dud performance.)
Intel Celeron = doomed now what did they pay amd (Score:2)
Intel Celeron = doomed now what did they pay to keep amd out??
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First AMD post on a 'celeron' topic.
Drink!
So we can write... (Score:3)
Not surprising, experimental project (Score:2)
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Pixel C (Score:1)
Can we now revive Android tablets please? (Score:2)
Around years 2013-2014, Android tablet development was so exciting that even companies that were never PC or tablet manufacturers jumped into the game (e.g. Nvidia Shield). However, for the last three years or so, Google created and promoted the narrative