In 15 years Google has failed to properly figure out tablets (with some comical situations where iOS/iPadOS Google apps worked better on tablets than their Android counterparts) and they expect us to believe they can pull an Android PC?
Android tablets have been languishing a marginal existence. The high end tablets are more expensive than the equivalent iPads. Most android tablets are crappy low end devices for cheap. That means the app ecosystem isn’t there either. Procreate for iPad combined with an Apple Pencil is one of the best ways to paint digitally. Android tablets don’t have something like that.
Google/Android on a cheap Laptop like the ChromeBooks could be a successful combination though.
Tablet hardware running a full Windows install is better than Android tablets these days, especially since battery life is so much better than it used to be. My laptop (Lenovo Yoga, so almost a tablet) runs all day, and I do some heavy stuff (including running a VM constantly). If I did only tablet stuff, I’d probably get 2 days out of it. The Yoga is a bit larger and heavier than my iPad with a keyboard case, but does 10x more.
Full OS on tablet is so close (both Dell and Lenovo offer tablets that can run Windows or Linux), I don’t see a mobile OS advantage anymore, and Google sees it too. They’ve got to get people locked in before a Linux laptop has 2 days of run time, because that will make an end run around mobile OS and UEFI lockdown.
In 15 years Google has failed to properly figure out tablets (with some comical situations where iOS/iPadOS Google apps worked better on tablets than their Android counterparts) and they expect us to believe they can pull an Android PC?
Android tablets have been languishing a marginal existence. The high end tablets are more expensive than the equivalent iPads. Most android tablets are crappy low end devices for cheap. That means the app ecosystem isn’t there either. Procreate for iPad combined with an Apple Pencil is one of the best ways to paint digitally. Android tablets don’t have something like that.
Google/Android on a cheap Laptop like the ChromeBooks could be a successful combination though.
Tablet hardware running a full Windows install is better than Android tablets these days, especially since battery life is so much better than it used to be. My laptop (Lenovo Yoga, so almost a tablet) runs all day, and I do some heavy stuff (including running a VM constantly). If I did only tablet stuff, I’d probably get 2 days out of it. The Yoga is a bit larger and heavier than my iPad with a keyboard case, but does 10x more.
Full OS on tablet is so close (both Dell and Lenovo offer tablets that can run Windows or Linux), I don’t see a mobile OS advantage anymore, and Google sees it too. They’ve got to get people locked in before a Linux laptop has 2 days of run time, because that will make an end run around mobile OS and UEFI lockdown.
Yes, windows on convertible laptops is a very powerful tool.