The trust of Google in the Android tablets Right now it is very much in question and there is no lack of reasons for it, but this weekend for a moment it seemed that the Mountain Viewers could have finally decided to make their official definitive abandonment, with an incident that drew a lot of attention but that has finally turned out to be nothing more than a bugs.
This weekend Google retired and restored its Android tablets page
It has been a long time since on the website of Android there is a section dedicated exclusively to tablets And, despite the fact that the search engine has not presented any new ones, and quite a lot since he withdrew his from the sale, it has continued in force. This weekend, however, it seemed that his time was about to come, when without any prior notice, Google pulled its page from Android tablets.
Taking into account that Android tablets are in a difficult time, with the rise of new formats those who do not adapt well and with the iPad recovering more and more ground, it is not surprising that the disappearance of this page was accepted quite naturally, although still with some surprise, as part of what undoubtedly seemed like one more movement in the strategy of withdrawal from this territory of Google.
You don't have to fear fans of Android who are reluctant to abandon their preferred operating system in the tablet format, in any case, because the page ended up coming back to life (you can see for yourself) and from Google They have clarified that its disappearance was due solely to a bug that occurred during the web update process.
Google hasn't written off Android tablets, for now
Although we certainly do not expect that Android tablets will disappear overnight and, in fact, we found some very positive news in this regard at the beginning of the year (better than we expected), with the launch of the MediaPad M5 and the first signs of life of a new Galaxy Tab S4, it is inevitable to continue questioning the trust of Google In them.
We have already commented that its position in the market has become quite complicated in recent times with the competition of the iPad and the 2 in 1, to which we must add that of the phablets, but those of Mountain View seem to be the first that they are not very clear that it has a future: this incident has once again drawn attention to the fact that models from 3 years ago are advertised on the Android tablets page, they have stopped launching their own and did not even launch a beta of Android P for Pixel C.
It is clear that right now all efforts to Google as far as tablets are concerned, they are trying to adapt to them Chrome OS, an operating system with much more potential to replace a PC, which is what seems to be more the way of this format right now. Still, Android tablets They are still the leaders in sales and have a lot of potential as multimedia devices, which is all that many users need, so we hope that those of the search engine will continue to take good care of them, at least until Chrome OS be really ready to replace them.