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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.
Yea an unlockable bootloader is the only way I'd consider this. It'd be cool to see something like GNU/Linux put on this as well.