Chromebook was a Google IO announcement, and I'm sure there are others that have succeeded.

Turning a previously open category of computing into a locked down experience never particularly excited me in the first place.

At least they have an official, documented, method for unlocking the product once you bought it.

that means nothing, the first-gen pixel was discontinued before the second-gen was announced too. and the chromebook pixel is hardly the only chromebook out there. it's a thriving product line, and the pixel series is a very very unimportant part of it.

Google has gotten worse and worse at this. It used to be that they would launch something right when they announced it. Then they would launch something invite-only when they announced it. Now they announce things without even having a clear idea of when or how those things will launch.

Hah, especially Android features that we might get 3 years later.