jbkendrick

While I agree with the opening remarks that Android tablets are dead, the reason is that ChromeOS is on the rise, and ChromeOS devices are taking the place of tablets in the Google world with multi-use Chromebooks. 

The rest of the article is from another planet.  According to this story ChromeOS is dead and Google is no longer supporting it after stopping sales of their Pixel Chromebook?  Ah, what about the Pixelbook that was only released a few months ago and then refreshed with more powerful (and costly) models since the beginning of this year, seems like they are continuing to ramp up ChromeOS not abandon it.  Have you been in a best buy lately?  The Chromebooks they have on display have doubled in the last year.  Costco is even selling them.

And I see you neglected to mention the education market where iPad has lost enormous market to ChromeOS.  Android P doesn't have anything to do with the death of ChromeOS, if it did you wouldn't have seen so many new Chromebooks on display at CES and Barcelona.  And even three new Chrome boxes are awaiting release this year from ASUS, HP and Acer, and CTL just released their new model, the first Chromebox to run Android apps out of the box.

Microsoft was chasing their tail trying to catch Google with Windows S, and now they've decided to change their strategy again as that hasn't worked, abandoning S.  The only way Apple will be able to regain some of what it has lost is to start selling products at a more reasonable price.  Otherwise, I think their time has come and gone for the masses.  J