

Many of them, I'm told, have already shifted over to the laptop side of that same self-made hardware division.” “The news was revealed at an internal company meeting on Wednesday, and Google is currently working to reassign employees who were focused on the abandoned projects onto other areas. “A Google spokesperson directly confirmed all of these details to me,” JR Raphael of ComputerWorld wrote. The report claimed that Google was in early development of two small-sized tablets, but the company has decided to scrap the development and changed its hardware roadmap to just laptops. The report also noted that the new development will not impact Pixel phones or Google Home/ Nest products as they are made by a different department.ĬomputerWorld was the first to report on Thursday that Google has decided to step away from making tablets on its own and will just focus on laptops. The last self-made tablet that Google released was Pixel Slate in 2018.

Osterloh's statement comes in response to an online report which claimed that Google was killing two in-development tablets and will instead focus on laptops. Google's Rick Osterloh has confirmed that the company's hardware team will solely be focusing on making laptops going forward.
