With its new Pixel Slate tablet, Google wants to win the shrinking tablet market in a battlefield it will have to share with competitors like Apple’s iPad and Microsoft’s Surface devices.
The search giant said Monday its new tablet is part of the company’s lineup of Pixel-branded hardware, including the Pixel smartphone and Pixelbook laptop. Like the Pixelbook, the Pixel Slate is powered by Google’s Chrome operating system as opposed to its mobile operating system Android, which companies like Samsung use as the underlying software for their own tablets.
