Google says it’s done making tablets and cancels two unreleased products

Google will not be launching a sequel to last year’s Pixel Slate tablet, according to Business Insider and Computer World, and will instead focus its Chrome OS hardware efforts on traditional laptop devices. “For Google’s first-party hardware efforts, we’ll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and will continue to support Pixel Slate,” a spokesperson told Business Insider. That’s a pretty direct confirmation that the company is turning back to the Pixelbook as the strategy going forward. You can expect the Slate to continue to receive software and security updates for several years to come — but there won’t be a Pixel Slate 2. Google went so far as to confirm to that it has axed two in-development tablet products, moving the employees who... Continue reading…