{"id":310919,"date":"2019-06-21T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=310919"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:40:40","slug":"google-shuts-down-tablet-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/310919-google-shuts-down-tablet-production.html","title":{"rendered":"Google shuts down tablet production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google will no longer make tablet devices and will focus instead on other hardware like laptops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3404206\/googles-officially-done-making-its-own-tablets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Computer World<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Pixel Slate &#8211; which is Google&#8217;s most recent tablet product &#8211; will continue to receive software updates, but it will cease to be manufactured and will not have a successor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Google&#8217;s first-party hardware efforts, we&#8217;ll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and will continue to support Pixel Slate,&#8221; Google said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Senior VP for Devices and Services, Rick Osterloh, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosterloh\/status\/1141791243128590336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1141791243128590336%7Ctwgr%5E393039363b74776565745f6d65646961&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2019%2F06%2F20%2Fgoogle-is-giving-up-on-tablets%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweet<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s true&#8230;Google&#8217;s HARDWARE team will be solely focused on building laptops moving forward, but make no mistake, Android &amp; Chrome OS teams are 100% committed for the long-run on working with our partners on tablets for all segments of the market,&#8221; said Osterloh.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/310897-apple-warning-your-macbook-pro-may-pose-a-safety-risk.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple warning \u2013 Your MacBook Pro may pose a safety risk<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google will no longer make tablet devices and will focus instead on other hardware like laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":278947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39160,54463,2432],"class_list":["post-310919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-google-pixel","tag-google-pixel-slate","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310929,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310919\/revisions\/310929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}