Google says Android tablets are the future

The media noticed that Google is looking for a senior engineer-manager of applications for Android tablets and in general began to pay much more attention to tablets and foldable devices.

Now, 9to5Google media has found a job opening for a Senior Engineer Manager for Android Tablet Applications, the description of which says:

Journalists note that the company could have made such a statement back in 2011, when the iPad was released, but, apparently, the potential of tablets at Google was “considered” only now.

One of the responsibilities in the aforementioned position is to “develop roadmaps and launch implementations of our ink first hero app strategy.” This seems to indicate that Google has decided to put more emphasis on handwriting, which has long been supported on Samsung devices, for example, but Google’s Android apps have never had much stylus support (Chrome OS Pixel devices had styluses, but not Android tablets).

Another interesting change was recently noticed by Computerworld journalists: the publication reported that Android co-founder Rich Miner updated his Linkedin and now holds the position of CTO at Android Tablets. That is, apparently, the company now has an Android Tablets division (“Android Tablets”), and Miner began working in this position back in March last year.

Let me remind you that we also wrote that Google collects 20x more telemetry from Android than Apple from iOS, and also that Simple picture turns a smartphone with Android into the brick.