Google’s cost-cutting kills Pixelbook division

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Never saw a pixel book in the wild or even for sale outside of the US

I've seen dozens of them in UK and Germany. But yeah, afaik they never went on sale outside of the US and UK.

I'm a big ChromeOS fan—even develop apps specifically for the platform—but I think this is the death knell for premium Chromebooks.

Why should anyone else invest in high quality hardware when Google is unwilling to? Very unfortunate.

"High end" is a contradiction with Chromebooks.

When my son was in school, the Chromebooks issued to students would buck the usual direction of the industry and get worse in performance every year. After all, if kids got computers that were capable at all they'd play

https://krunker.io/

instead of doing schoolwork.

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