The Chromebook is dead! Long live the Googlebook! Or not, because actually, the Chromebook isn't dead – although that has been a misconception floating around in places – in fact, it'll continue to exist alongside Google's new more premium laptops, freshly announced at The Android Show 2026. And as for the Googlebook, not everyone is wishing it a long life – indeed, some folks out there are hating on the device already, and we don't even know that much about it.
We know enough, though – and the basics of how the Googlebook will be realized – for people to already be throwing stones, casting aspersions, and generally getting quite worked up about what Google is trying to do with an all-new platform here.
