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Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by cryptoz »

2mur wrote: post #10
dublinclontarf wrote: post #4

Why bother, what does ChromeOS do that Android doesn't for a tablet?

Agreed. I have a high amount of interest in buying an Android tablet (2nd gen of course, let someone else beta test your bugs out), and next to zero interest in a ChromeOS tablet. Android is a known quantity.

One major difference is the update pattern. Chrome OS silently and constantly updates itself so that you will always be running 100% modern software. I hear more complaints about being stuck on old versions of Android than anything else about that OS.

Chrome OS does serve a different purpose. Being so tightly integrated with the browser will definitely give you a better Web experience than you could ever have on Android. Then again, Android has a platform for running applications natively.

What I'm trying to say is...they're different. Maybe you don't want one, and that's fine. But I suspect there are a lot of people who will.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by angstrom »

Tichy wrote: post #19
tiles wrote: post #7

So an OS that was originally intended for netbooks, before it's even released, has switched targets to the newly formed iPad-like tablet market? Suspect, but not unbelievable. On another note, It still impresses me just how quickly the market was anticipating, repulsed, and then rapidly copying the iPad. I genuinely wonder if Google had targeted the iPad form factor first (with Android or Chrome OS) if they would hav…

Why is every tablet assumed to be inspired by the iPad? All sorts of companies have been creating tablets for a long time. Sure Apple apparently made a nice one. But it is not only Apple's genius, it is also the the progress of technology that made it possible (faster, more power efficient CPUs, better batteries, better displays...). One big thing hindering other companies' tablets was probably Windows, which presuma…

Mass acceptance indicating a strong and growing market. Should also point out it's as important what they chose to leave out as it is what they left in, not just the convergence of technologies making it possible.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by antics »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #4

Why bother, what does ChromeOS do that Android doesn't for a tablet?

Yeah, well, what does the iPad do that the Android doesn't? The game is not, and has never been, about feature exhaustion. Slashdot famously wrote about the iPod [http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257], "No wireless. Less memory than the Nomad. Lame." And we all know where that went.

Apple built their house by making a lack of (what people thought were very) important features cool. ChromeOS is basically a browser with legs, which is certainly a step in that direction. So maybe the fight is not off.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by iamjustlooking »

dannyr wrote: post #15
kqueue wrote: post #12

First, they copied Apple iPhone and created Android. Now they are going iPad and creating this tablet. Very innovative Google. very.

Google bought Android in August 2005. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200... The IPhone was launched January 2007. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html

But you just compared the acquisition of Android to the launch date of the iPhone. Are you saying that the development and manufacture of the iPhone all took place in 2007?

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by antics »

The best part of the article for me is the fact that that picture is the iPad, down to the little x at the top right corner of the keyboard window.

And yet it can't be that far off. ChromeOS is basically a browser with a kernel. Done right, I bet a product like that could be as viable, if not more so, than the iPad. And along the way, Apple might actually be out-minimized.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by jonknee »

archgrove wrote: post #9
joezydeco wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article talks about a potential HTC-built device sold by Verizon. Where does it talk about an end-user sale?

In the comments, from the author... > Lee Mathews said 10:50AM on 8-18-2010 > No, my source tells me it's Google hardware -- like the N1. I'm assuming handset support in the US is the same as the EU, where for smart phones, you normally deal with the manufacturer, not the carrier ( i.e. If my iPhone or iPad breaks, I call Apple - not O2).

> I'm assuming handset support in the US is the same as the EU, where for smart phones, you normally deal with the manufacturer, not the carrier ( i.e. If my iPhone or iPad breaks, I call Apple - not O2).

The iPhone is unique in that aspect, support is almost always done through the carrier in the US. Probably because handsets are almost always sold subsidized through the carrier (and frequently customized for them).

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by el_chapitan »

Tichy wrote: post #19
tiles wrote: post #7

So an OS that was originally intended for netbooks, before it's even released, has switched targets to the newly formed iPad-like tablet market? Suspect, but not unbelievable. On another note, It still impresses me just how quickly the market was anticipating, repulsed, and then rapidly copying the iPad. I genuinely wonder if Google had targeted the iPad form factor first (with Android or Chrome OS) if they would hav…

Why is every tablet assumed to be inspired by the iPad? All sorts of companies have been creating tablets for a long time. Sure Apple apparently made a nice one. But it is not only Apple's genius, it is also the the progress of technology that made it possible (faster, more power efficient CPUs, better batteries, better displays...). One big thing hindering other companies' tablets was probably Windows, which presuma…

The supporters of history rarely get the credit for the work they put in. It is the person who was there when the final blow was struck that gets most of the credit.

Apple shouldn't get all the credit for creating tablet computers. They should get credit for creating the first tablet that most people actually wanted to buy. If you want to ignore the influence of the iPad on the current market and overall design of the tablets we're going to see, you're being painfully myopic.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by rortian »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #4

Why bother, what does ChromeOS do that Android doesn't for a tablet?

I'm much more excited about Chrome OS than Android. You get a full featured browser as your default environment, not some weird descendant of Palm. I do appreciate widgets and such are cool on android, but give me an SVG/Canvas version of those any day.

Re: Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26

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Post by illumin8 »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #4

Why bother, what does ChromeOS do that Android doesn't for a tablet?

ChromeOS is probably worse for a tablet than Android. Imagine if the iPad only shipped with Safari and no other native apps. The uproar would be incredible.
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