Google reportedly cancels Pixel Tablet 3 | Infinium-tech

Android tablets haven’t had as much success as Apple’s iPad, and Google’s goods are included in that assessment. The company abandoned the tablet in 2019 before teasing a Pixel tablet in 2022 and then releasing it last year, and now it looks like it’s ready to abandon the form factor once again.

Google has decided to cancel development of the Pixel Tablet 3, codenamed Kiyomi internally, according to a new report reportedly coming from “multiple industry sources close to the project.” The decision was apparently taken last week, only when all the teams involved became aware of it. People who were working on the Pixel Tablet 3 have been redeployed to other projects within Google.

So it looks like the upcoming Pixel Tablet 2 will be Google’s last tablet, at least for a while. The good news is that it may have an official first-party keyboard case, unlike its predecessor. The bad news is that it is not getting any successor.

This news clearly indicates that Google’s heart was not in the tablet sector this time either. The company has been strangely shy of integrating useful tablet-specific features into Android, causing Apple to basically run away from the entire market. But don’t worry, Google’s amazing plan to compete with the iPad is apparently merging Chrome OS into Android and launching a laptop. We wish we were making this stuff. If anyone can make sense of Google’s strategy at this point, please let us know in the comments.

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