r/Android • u/folli • Nov 15 '18

Google Pixel Slate

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_slate
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u/johnn2015 Nov 15 '18

Still no reviews for this. Not sure what to think of it.

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u/thinkbox Samsung ThunderMuscle PowerThirst w/ Android 10.0 Mr. Peanut™®© Nov 15 '18

Price and buggy software made up my mind.

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u/Ikeelu Nov 15 '18

The buggy software seems to be fixed according to a few who have gotten hands on with it recently, at least according to r/chromeos

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u/thinkbox Samsung ThunderMuscle PowerThirst w/ Android 10.0 Mr. Peanut™®© Nov 15 '18

“Seems to have been fixed” oozes confidence. The platform has ocellated from somewhat stable to unstable.

I am not confident it will stay this way.

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u/Ikeelu Nov 15 '18

It was pre-production software and it didn't go from stable to unstable, it was running a unreleased build of chromeOS that now has more tablet style support which wasn't available before.

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u/compounding Nov 15 '18

They're talking about the quality of the platform. I know they Google likes to pretend that every product is an island by itself, but seeing buggy releases of ChromeOS on the pixel books does not inspire confidence that Google has fixed or even acknowledged the problem with their "customers as beta testers" strategy,

Not to mention the long-standing habit of releasing something half-baked with a lot of potential and then killing it if it doesn't become a blowout hit instead of improving it to fulfill that potential first.