I don’t have any “smart” stuff in my home (other than phones). I suspect I’d feel differently about this thing if I did.
I dont know how I feel about giving google access to cameras, speakers, and other features around my house given their track record with collecting data so the main docking feature is a little lost on me.
That aside I think the pixel tablet will do about as well(or poorly depending on perspective) as the other higher end android tablets do.
I think the issue that tablets run into is that there isnt really a lot of room for them. For ultra portable media consumption phones do the job pretty well these days, for higher end productivity consumption you start competing with other devices like laptops.
The niche left behind for tablets is not very big and already saturated. You have the super cheap media consumption device end of things, and Amazon dominates that market. For something to just read off of or watch videos on they absolutely do the trick and can do it for under $200. The premium tablet space is dominated by apple and the ipad. It just genuinely is more powerful and has a better ecosystem of tablet form factor apps.
Yeah, I’d like it, but be damned if Google was staying on it.
I’d hope there was a tablet rom from Graphene, Calyx, or Lineage I could flash it with.
I’ve been slowly removing Alexa from my life, but it seems very tough for me to nix our Echo Show in the Kitchen. It’s been useful.
I went the HomeKit route instead of Google, so a HomePod with a screen is what I wish for (though I know it won’t ever come). That being said, this does look pretty slick.
I was in the market for a tablet during the pandemic and was very frustrated with the options. I needed something we could use on an exercise bike and switch between users easily. We were looking at one of the Galaxy models that was $900 and I think we decided it just wasn’t worth it for a glorified tv that doesn’t do half the things we wanted. So this is $400 cheaper and does literally everything we want it to. I also don’t have smart devices, but I’m stoked just to have an android tablet that isn’t overly complicated.
We use a bunch of different Nest Speakers within a house. I wonder if this would be useful to getting these connected? The home app works well now but casting from different music apps can have issues.
I’ve bought Pixel Phones for a while now. I’m no fan of Google. but I appreciate a no BS phone, that gets actual updates. My son has long had Fire Tables (being cheap and all that), but I don’t like the Amazon version of Android. I’m looking forward to seeing how this new tablet fares.
