“Back at the beginning of 2010, Google felt quite confident that its Android platform would crush Apple’s iPhone in the same way Microsoft Windows had marginalized Mac sales into relative obscurity with 2 percent market share in the late 1990s. However, Apple changed the game by launching another new iOS product: iPad. It split Google’s focus and demonstrated that Android as a platform couldn’t turn a bunch of commodity PC and phone makers into an innovative, creative challenge to Apple,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “Eight years later, Google appears ready to give up on tablets entirely.”
“Google’s upcoming Android P release drops support for Pixel C, the company’s last effort at building an Android tablet,” Dilger writes. “Android P also drops support for all remaining Nexus branded devices.”
“Google’s failure to sell tablets isn’t just the fault of lacking Apple’s scale or relying on third parties to build its processors and to develop the outline of its hardware. It has also failed to develop a market for tablet-specific Android apps, instead relying on developers to simply stretch their smartphone apps into tablet-sized screens,” Dilger writes. “But at this point, it’s been over two years since Google even introduced a new tablet of its own, and its last Pixel C was discontinued in December. Google can deny it has given up on tablets, but imagine the headlines if Apple discontinued all of its iPads and stopped supporting them in the next iOS. ”
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MacDailyNews Take: Our Lady of Transitory Endeavor strikes yet again.
No one seems to understand why Eric T. Mole suddenly quit his Google CEO position.
Donald Trump knows why.
stay tuned.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
And what does that have to do with Eric Schmid?
Resignations from Sept to Dec in chronological order:
Equifax CEO Richard Smith Sep. 26, 2017
Dentsply Sirona Inc CEO Jeffrey T. Slovin Oct. 2, 2017
Greater Naples CEO Paul Thein Oct. 4, 2017
Pepsico CEO D Shivakumar Oct. 9, 2017
Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun Oct. 12, 2017
Oman Air CEO Paul Gregorowitsch Oct. 16, 2017
ASCENDAS Funds Management CEO Chia Nam Toon Oct. 20, 2017
Hudson’s Bay CEO Gerald Storch Oct. 20, 2017
Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast Region CEO David Brady Oct. 28, 2017
BuildDirect CEO Jeff Booth Oct. 29, 2017
Podesta Group founder Tony Podesta Oct. 30, 2017
Menninger Clinic CEO Dr. C. Edward Coffey Oct. 31, 2017
Renaissance Technologies CEO Robert Mercer Nov. 2, 2017
Ardent Leisure CEO Simon Kelly Nov. 7, 2017
El Al CEO David Maimon Nov. 8, 2017
Altice CEO Michel Combes Nov. 9, 2017
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane CEO Themba Dlamini Nov. 14, 2017
James Cancer Hospital CEO Michael Caligiuri Nov. 16, 2017
PR Electric Power Authority CEO Ricardo L. Ramos Nov. 17, 2017
Ellies CEO Wayne Samson Nov. 21, 2017
Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman Nov. 22, 2017
Oi SA CEO Marco Schroeder Nov. 24, 2017
Tumblr CEO David Karp Nov. 27, 2017
London Stock Exchange CEO Xavier Rolet Nov. 28, 2017
Bruce Telecom CEO Bart Cameron Nov. 29, 2017
TravelCenters of America LLC CEO Thomas O’Brien Nov. 30, 2017
Tricentennial Commission CEO Edward Benavides Nov. 30, 2017
City Light CEO Larry Weis Dec. 4, 2017
Steinhoff’s R100bn CEO Markus Jooste Dec. 5, 2017
Uchumi Supermarkets CEO Julius Kipng’etich Dec. 6, 2017
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool Dec. 8, 2017
Deutsche Boerse CEO Carsten Kengeter Dec. 8, 2017
Nation Media Group CEO Joe Muganda Dec. 11, 2017
Cheil Worldwide CEO Daiki Lim Dec. 11, 2017
Fenway Health CEO Dr. Stephen L. Boswell Dec. 11, 2017
Diebold/Nixdorf CEO Andy Mattes Dec. 14, 2017
Diebold/Nixdorf CEO Andy Mattes Dec. 14, 2017
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Dec. 15, 2017
Vast Resources CEO Roy Pitchford Dec. 18, 2017
Spackman Entertainment Group CEO Charles Spackman Dec. 18, 2017
ESPN President John Skipper Dec. 18, 2017
Innogy CEO Peter Terium Dec. 20, 2017
Papa John CEO John Schnatter Dec. 22, 2017
NYPD Police Chief Carlos Gomez retires Dec. 22, 2017
Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt Dec. 22, 2017
I cannot take you seriously on any topic while you endorse the lunatic traitor that resides in the White House who Putin has by the balls
the sheep pen is to your left.
Yes, I can see you standing in it, captain obvious.
Gizzard
You are a person of interest
And we cannot wait to take you down
Snowflake!
I’d call Google “Our Lady of Perpetually Half-Baked Endeavors.”
Followed by the Holy Grail Knights when bested yelling “Run away! Run away!”
And I’m sure the market loves it. Apple is the only tech company that isn’t allowed to fail. Google and Amazon can blow all the billions they want on garbage and their stocks go up up up! But one report that iPhone X sales could, maybe, possibly be slightly below expectations and AAPL is down 5%.
It would be almost worth it to have the iPad be the only tablet ion the market.
But alas, Dilger is too Apple clouded to be right.
Google should stick with what it’s doing best which is a giant search engine.
Yes, “a giant search engine”, linked directly to government databases.