Google Pulls the Plug on Pixelbook

[btarunr]

Google found out that nobody wants to spend four-figures on a Chromebook, no matter how premium it looks or works. The company has reportedly decided to cancel the next-generation of Pixelbook, its take on a stock, premium Chromebook with fairly powerful hardware, and first-rate device aesthetics. It was meant as a technology demonstrator for all that the Chromebook can do, and how the Chromebook platform itself is meant as an evolution of the PC. The Verge reports that Google cancelled Pixelbook and shut down the team building it. Members of the team have been internally transferred within Google. The decision is being seen as unexpected, as Google hinted at I/O that it would keep Pixelbook going.



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[konga]

Funnily enough, I read this post and am writing this comment on a Chromebook.

Chromebooks are good for one thing and one thing only: a dirt-cheap web browsing device. Buying a "premium" Chromebook is like buying a premium toaster. Nothing you add to thing that everyone else isn't already doing will enhance the core use case, and it will just become a pointless waste of money.

I got my Chromebook for $250. It has a 14" 1080p screen and a keyboard that's decent for a cheap laptop, and it can watch 1080p youtube videos and browse most sites without a hitch. I wouldn't want to spend a penny more on one of these things, no matter what fancy features you add.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Another victim to add to the list

 

[bug]

To rephrase a little, Google just found out they can't sell you half a laptop for the same price as a full-fledged laptop.
If there was a Darwin award for management, it would be hard to wrestle it from Google.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

The pixelbook was like every other pixel product, a cheap (in this case chromebook instead of nexus) device given a pixel makeover and the pricetag tripled.

Google could never figure out the market, if youre gonna offer a premium chromebook it had better be able to do something over my $250 chromebook. Given that gaming is out of the question and google has made it hard for anyone to write non cloud based apps for the things its not surprising nobody wanted them.

 

[ThrashZone]

Another victim to add to the list

Hi,
To bad google search isn't on that list

 

[Shou Miko]

Funnily enough, I read this post and am writing this comment on a Chromebook.

Chromebooks are good for one thing and one thing only: a dirt-cheap web browsing device. Buying a "premium" Chromebook is like buying a premium toaster. Nothing you add to thing that everyone else isn't already doing will enhance the core use case, and it will just become a pointless waste of money.

I got my Chromebook for $250. It has a 14" 1080p screen and a keyboard that's decent for a cheap laptop, and it can watch 1080p youtube videos and browse most sites without a hitch. I wouldn't want to spend a penny more on one of these things, no matter what fancy features you add.

Well recently in Denmark a lot of chromebooks in the public schools are now being marked as a security risk because they leak a lot of private, user information which is a huge security hole.

Link: https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au...orkspace-in-schools-over-data-transfer-risks/
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/18/d...ks-and-google-workspace-in-schools-over-gdpr/

Maybe Google could get their issues fixed because it's a popular laptop for schools since most of them are cheap but nothing I would ever own myself.

 

[bug]

Well recently in Denmark a lot of chromebooks in the public schools are now being marked as a security risk because they leak a lot of private, user information which is a huge security hole.

Link: https://worldfreedomalliance.org/au...orkspace-in-schools-over-data-transfer-risks/
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/18/d...ks-and-google-workspace-in-schools-over-gdpr/

Maybe Google could get their issues fixed because it's a popular laptop for schools since most of them are cheap but nothing I would ever own myself.

And that what Google is doing: the fix for sending most of your data to the cloud is a proper laptop. Hence Google is retiring the Pixelbook, so you can use the proper tool instead

 

[Bomby569]

google is a destruction machine

 

[bug]

google is a destruction machine

Yeah, their projects are like quantum particles: they will spawn and annihilate spontaneously before anyone has a chance to notice them.

 

[bonehead123]

I got my Chromebook for $250.

Well, that's funny, since it just slightly less than my full featured mini-me boxer pc that runs wundows & all of it's associated softwarez instead of that one-trick-pony chrome OS, hehehehe

 

[Laykun]

Am I the only one that really loved the Pixelbook? Yep, the price wasn't great, but it was an extremely well made device that felt awesome to type on / use. If the screen was OLED and the speakers a bit better I would have never let it go, I miss my pixelbook. it was a little linux platform with an amazing keyboard and trackpad that could run my android apps. It was light and had reasonable battery life.

 

[1d10t]

Another "boutique notebook" that does less than Surface but cost more than Macbook.

 

[R-T-B]

And that what Google is doing: the fix for sending most of your data to the cloud is a proper laptop. Hence Google is retiring the Pixelbook, so you can use the proper tool instead

They aren't retiring the chromebook, just the premium expensive version of it.

 

[kyngque60]

I use my Chromebook for GeForce Now and it works flawless