Google has indicated intentions to expand beyond smartphones in the last year or two with a new Pixel tablet and a Pixel Watch, but it no longer plans to manufacture laptops. According to The Verge, Google has cancelled the next edition of the PixelBook laptop and disbanded the team that was working on it.
According to The Verge, citing a source familiar with the topic, the next-generation PixelBook laptop was in the final stages of development and would have been released in 2023. However, owing to internal cost-cutting at Google, the plans to deploy it have been cancelled. The PixelBook staff has apparently been reassigned to other projects.
Google originally launched the PixelBook in 2017, then two years later, the firm announced the PixelBook Go, which is significantly less expensive. While the business has purportedly exited the category, Rick Osterloh, Google's head of hardware, told The Verge that the company will continue to create Pixelbooks in the future. That, however, did not occur.
"In certain situations, this means combining where investments overlap and simplifying procedures," he said in a message to Google CEO Sundar Pichai in May.
"While Google does not reveal future product plans or personnel details, we are dedicated to creating and maintaining a range of Google products that are creative and useful to our consumers," a Google representative told The Verge. "In respect to," the speaker continued,to our people, in times where we do shift priorities we work to transition team members across devices and services."
The next big-screen device Google is expected to launch is the Pixel Tablet, which is said to launch sometime next year.
