Google&#x27;s strategy here might just be &quot;hey, you can buy it now if you like, although it&#x27;s not ready yet, and still get <i>some</i> use out of it early; but after a few point-releases, it&#x27;ll <i>turn into</i> what it was supposed to be.&quot;<p>I have a feeling that the code in Android to render a ChromeOS-like UX is sitting nascent on the Pixel-C, just waiting to be patched a few times to smooth out bugs, before being flipped on.