While companies like Acer and Samsung look to be making steady progress with cementing Chromebooks in the education market, Google themselves might be ready to throw in the towel.

During an interview with TechCrunch, Google’s senior vice president for hardware Rick Osterloh revealed that the company will no longer be making and selling Chromebooks directly – or at least under the Pixel brand that’s now become their vehicle for selling smartphones.

When asked about future, Osterloh say the company have “no plans to do one right now” and noted that the company have sold out of all stock of previous models.

“Google hasn’t backed away from laptops. We have the number two market share in the U.S. and U.K. — but we have no plans for Google-branded laptops,” he said, affirming the company’s commitment to ChromeOS but not making and selling its own hardware to go with it.

Osterloh also acknowledged the recent shortage of Pixel smartphones, which even extended to Australia.

Past rumors have said that Google will be bringing a new Pixel-branded tablet, believed to be called the Pixel 7, to market later this year, which may look to supplant the role Chromebooks previously played in the company’s product ecosystem.

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