Oh boy.

Its been 10 years since the Nexus 7 was released[0], a barely functional device that Google made unuseable when they released an update that made it painfully slow.

Once bitten, twice shy. Their future might be android tablet based, mine is more likely to be an environment that isnt completely littered with abandoned devices you have no hope of getting support for.

[0] https://cd-rw.org/t/resurrect-a-nexus-7-2012-to-run-as-good-...

Here is how I explained the current tablet ecosystem to my mother the other day:

1. There are Amazon Fire tablets which are cheap and useable for watching Netflix and Prime Video but you can't expect too much from them.

2. You have Apple's entry-level iPad which is a great tablet for most things at an affordable price.

3. You have Android tablets. They are often more expensive than the iPad, and offer less performance and value.

4. Then there are Apple's premium iPads, which cost more but offer more features.

5. There are also Windows tablets which are basically like Windows laptops without keyboards, and many of them do not offer good performance.

I bought a Nexus 10 - it became a rather expensive brick when they stopped updating it - bought an Ipad.

Strange since they didn't support any of the Android tablets they released and let them all become essentially bricks.

I can’t comment on google’s offerings, but I loved my shield tablet back in the day and would love to see more spiritual successors. Sure it was less speedy than most comparable iPads, but I quite enjoyed being able to run emulators, software from f-droid, etc. If Google wants to carry on that torch sounds good to me.