Google just announced the Googlebook, a brand-new laptop category built around Gemini Intelligence with an Android-based OS. But the leaks that dropped before the official reveal may be more revealing than anything Google said on stage. A 16-minute hands-on video of the operating system surfaced hours before the event, and it contained a "Link to iOS."
A feature that Google has never publicly mentioned. That alone reframes what this platform could be.
The confirmed hardware is already ambitious: Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek chips across multiple OEM partners, a Magic Pointer cursor built with DeepMind, and deep Android phone integration at the OS level. But Samsung is conspicuously absent from the partner list. Pricing hasn't been announced. And the operating system doesn't even have an official name yet.
Could a first-party Pixel Googlebook be the launch hardware that makes this all click into place, or is the real story hiding in what Google still hasn't said?
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