“Google’s Pixel C tablet not made for Android” – Macworld

If you’re browsing the internet for reviews on Google’s new tablet, you will notice that many reviewers are fairly disappointed in the device. Google’s mobile operating system is blamed for it. “The Pixel C was probably never designed to run Android,” said Ron Amadeo of Ars Technica. “It is strange that this unit [in this way] to the Pixel team comes from Google, with two major hardware brands:.. Nexus and Pixel Nexus name is normally used for Android devices while the Pixel-name is used for Chrome OS machines “

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And there are other elements that prove the Pixel C perhaps should have been a Chrome OS device. Last year showed there all test hardware to be released under the name “Ryu”. This reference board was then known as Chrome OS board. The specifications of that plate were suspiciously similar to those of the current pixel C tablet. In addition, the Chrome OS working team with a new interface called Athena that had to add touchscreen functionality to the operating system.

Amadeo further reports that do not really hurry up the development of the system and in the first quarter of this year was experimenting with Android. “Chrome OS can not really work well without a mouse and add the team android decided on the tablet. We know that Android would not be used as a replacement because it was working on an option to make the Chrome OS bootloader talk with Android. ” Thanks to this mix the tablet was internally renamed Frank Board.

RIP Frank Board

Unfortunately, some months later jettisoned the Board Frank-solution and in September only talked about Android. Amadeo speculates that this could have to do with the approaching holidays. “Plan C: Christmas is coming but just throw it on Android and send the whole thing!”. The final result is not what everyone had hoped.

Amadeo writes, finally, the bumbling with Chrome OS and Android on the Pixel probably had to do with the idea of ​​merging the two ever together.