Over the past few years, Android tablets have seemed to get no attention from Google, but now it seems that they want to take their tablet division seriously.
This can be seen from the LinkedIn page of Rich Miner, one of the founders of Android, who changed his position on the page to "CTO Android Tablets", which he has been occupied since March 2021.
According to Google, this position makes Miner a leader in developing Android software for large-screen devices, as well as in the platform and ecosystem team.
Seeing that this influential figure in Android's history leads the division, coupled with several job openings that Google has opened for the division, it looks like they will be doing something interesting on Android, beyond mobile phones and foldable phones.
Miner himself is one of the figures who developed Android before it was finally acquired by Google. And now he is back working on the OS, which is assumed to aim to make a better tablet platform.
Besides Miner, previously Google has also shown interest in working on Android on a large screen, one of which is through the Android 12L update which is currently in beta stage, as quoted by us from The Verge, Monday (31/1/2022).
At first glance, the tablet sector seems to be dominated by Apple through the iPad. But Apple doesn't really dominate this sector, as their market share in Q3 2021 is only 34%, while Samsung is the second largest with 18% market share. The rest is filled with Amazon and so on.
This means that there is still a wide enough market niche for Google to work on in this sector. Maybe Google is interested in releasing the successor to the Nexus 7, the legendary tablet of its time (around 2012), which has solid specifications at a friendly price (again, in its time).