Google’s Pixel Tablet is a unique product and a good reminder that not every tablet needs to double as a full-on computer.
It seems like Google needs more tablet offerings if just to keep the Android marketplace honest. Otherwise, you get Samsung trying its bad takeover of Android or weird knockoff brands that I wouldn’t trust giving Google Account access to.
I also feel like this tablet is meant to be a homebody, which isn’t what I want in a tablet.
Why would you want to make this distinction (consuming vs producing) though?
Because most people don’t need to be able to run full Photoshop and code on all their devices. Somethings are just good to be an entertainment device
Sure not everyone needs to run a full suite for photo and image manipulation, or animation, or 3d modelling or coding.
I simply fail to see the reason why someone would make the distinction. A producing grade device can offer all the media consumption you need. Especially on tablets where the software is what enables the device, not the device itself. You can probably just go ahead and pair a bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth mouse or even dongle it with wired devices and turn it into a great productivity device.
It is more to set expectations with price.
Mhm possibly. But we are still talking about 500 dollarinos though :)
If you trust the dock price, the tablet is only $380.
Even still. $500 devices generally arent made for pro grade consumers. They have to allocate their budget better than focusing on a crazy big and high resolution display or oled or something
Because you can’t optimize for both.
But what would it take to make it good for consuming media AND good for productivity? And why does this Pixel Tablet feels like its very good at one thing but not “meant” for the other?
My experience is with iPadOS, but it’s how even simple things of switching from a browser to another app can cause audio to cut out. Stuff like that breaks the illusion of multitasking, and I’ve tried apps like Lumafusion and that’s where stuff like file management and having multiple windows open made me go back to DaVinci Resolve on the PC.
Found myself wishing the iPadOS could just switch to MacOS. It works fine for some productivity like Procreate for drawing, but anything more than that feels like I’m putting extra effort to do something that feels awkward in comparison to a full blown desktop OS.
At the same time for media consumption in a touchscreen form I don’t want a desktop OS, so simplicity of iPadOS is perfect for reading comics or watching videos. I guess maybe hybrid approach of switching between a mobile OS to an actual desktop would be the way where in desktop you can still run apps like in Windows 11? If I’m being productive I want to attach a mouse and keyboard anyways and don’t want to be stuck to the quirks of a simplified OS built around single app consumption and touch screen navigation.
Microsoft had the right idea with tablet mode in Windows 8. Just poor execution.
This will never come to Apple, because if your iPad could replace your Mac, you wouldn’t buy both, as many people do.
