Google has scrapped the upcoming Pixelbook and has disbanded the team that was working on it

Google has scrapped the upcoming Pixelbook and has disbanded the team that was working on it

Going ahead, it’s apparent that the firm is concentrating its efforts where it feels the Android ecosystem needs them: smartwatches and tablets. It’s also conceivable that after years of attempting to create elegant, cutting-edge Chromebooks, the business has decided that schools and kids will continue to be the greatest ChromeOS consumers and will never pay Google’s rates.

To be fair, Google has a long history of abandoning projects before resuming them — smartwatches and even Google Glass come to mind, and remember three years ago when Google announced it was exiting the tablet market to focus solely on laptops? — so Google may someday decide it needs to help juice the Chromebook market again. But, for the time being, the ChromeOS market is robust, and Google is no longer attempting to advance it.