Google’s CTO of Android tablets sees tablet sales passing laptops ‘in the not too distant future’

After forgetting that there was a market for tablets, the company is very invested in it. One of the platform's co-founders, Rich Miner, has rejoined the team with the title "CTO of Android tablets."

The introduction of tablets in 2011 and how apps like media players scaled to fit them easily without much investment, but then growth stagnated, now he cites data.

The other reason is that tablets can be very capable, less expensive than a laptop, and that spurred the work on the systemUI for use on bigger devices.

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The pitch for developers to look at their apps and consider taking advantage of the tools built into the app is being made by miner. He points to 2020 sales data, where the number of laptop shipments actually started to approach the number of tablets purchased. I think there will be a point in the not too distant future where there are more tablets sold annually than there are laptops. I don't think you're going to come back once you cross over that point.

We need to see more action before we can believe that the renewed push by the search giant will make us want to pick up tablets again. We will be ready if we get a bigger one. There is a project in the works.

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