I found this, I’m wanting to get a pixel tablet in about a week or so. Title just got me wondering a bit, though it’s probably just a little bit sensationalized
The problem is that Galaxy Tab S is far superior and lasts a heck of a long time.
Google should have done what they did with Wear and worked with Samsung to provide a seamless tablet interface instead of try to do their own tablet.
The far cheaper Galaxy Tab A series is a near equivalent competitor for where Google is positioning its tablet (an at-home media device, rather than a highly-performant professional device), and for a lot of people, trading the considerably lower price for no docking station and some older specs is worthwhile.
Google need to either make the docking capability a lot more appealing, or reduce the price significantly because at the moment it sits squarely in the home entertainment sphere, but with a price tag creeping up to match professional-tier devices - why would someone pay the premium for what is effectively an ebook and Youtube device?
The problem with the Galaxy Tab A series is that Samsung cheaps out on their SOCs, to the point where they’re unusably slow for even simple web browsing and watching YouTube.
The average person buys one because they’re cheap, then thinks all Android tablets suck because of how awful Samsung’s A series tablets have been for years and goes and buys an iPad.
I can definitely confirm that. My grandma owns a Galaxy tab A7 lite and it is so slow. And I can’t get it to go any faster no matter what I do. I have no idea how she tolerates that thing, though she does mainly use it just for Facebook, as well as a few solitaire games, including one that hasn’t been updated since like 2017.
I would have thought it was selling pretty well, I know the android tablet market is a small niche but it seems like a strong contender, particularly for the google nest users out there?
I suspect they intended to release it earlier, when the home office and video chat boom was still going on but missed the mark and now have more stock than they wanted.
My Pixel 6 issues (originally bluetooth, which now (mostly) finally works, but now overheating and a factory reset to fix background networking just dying) turned me off pretty hard. I ended up getting another Android tablet instead and it, thankfully, has mostly been great.
I’m still really on the fence about sticking with Google devices for my phone. It’s even push me to consider going back to Apple, which I really don’t want to do. I’d rather stick with Android, but I also don’t want bloatwere and/or spyware (in addition to what using Google apps already gets me).
Im in the same boat, I like my pixel 6 pro, but less about device issues, I’ve had my fair share of them. To me google has left me pretty sour, and as someone who has been a huge android and was a fan of Google services. I just can’t give a company my money when they cancel and sell off the services that I loved.
Pretty sure I’ll be buying my first iPhone if I like the looks of the new 15.
All the bad press about school and local governments across the country complaining that their Pixel Tablets bought during the pandemic are not running out of supported update lifecycle, and will be considered bricks, wasting Billions of dollars, have got to have Google shitting bricks themselves. Literal own goal in the pursuit of greed.
Um…
These just came out like 2 months ago. Are you talking about the old nexus 7, which is 11 years old? Or maybe the most recent releases in 2014?
Anybody who bought one of those in 2020 was a moron and deserved to have them die “unexpectedly”.
They are referring to Chromebooks, which have a published end of life cycle because the OS is built around specific boards and then rebranded around those features to partners.
Very different beast than the Android-based Pixel Tablet.
