Google officially admits that it’s given up on tablets

Google’s Pixel Tablet launched back in 2023, and it’s been all crickets from the search giant since then on the tablet front. We’ve heard various reports about it having planned two more generations at least, but then we also heard those were canceled.

Now, the company itself has finally acknowledged the situation and confirmed that it’s given up on tablets “until it figures out a meaningful future for the category”, according to a Bloomberg report, which goes on to say that “at least for the foreseeable future, Google doesn’t imagine a scenario where users are carrying much more than their phone”.

This is some odd reasoning, to put it mildly, since Apple still sells millions of iPads each year, and most people don’t actually ‘carry’ those anywhere outside their homes. Of course, a huge corporation like Google isn’t likely to just own up to the fact that it’s been very bad at designing software for tablets and that may have something to do with its sales woes in this category – instead, it’s acting like the whole category is pointless.

That may very well be in theory, but it’s irrelevant if tablets are still being sold by a lot of Google’s competitors left and right. Anyway, the point here is that if you were for some reason expecting to see a new Google tablet anytime soon, you need to come to grips with the idea of buying an iPad or a Galaxy Tab instead, since those are at least real products that exist.