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Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by macrael »

dustingetz wrote: post #21
richcollins wrote: post #13

Google is starting to feel like Microsoft. They're trying to compete everywhere instead of focusing on their core competencies.

their core product is advertising; and all these other services exist to augment such. google's leadership is quite clearly on their A game.

I don't think so. Advertising is where they make their money, but Google's core competency is storing and making sense of massive amounts of data. That is what they do better than everyone else, advertising is just how they monetize it.

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by jodrellblank »

axod wrote: post #41
cabalamat wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right. If the future of computing is Apple's locked down iPad and iPhone platforms, Google will lose big time. Google therefore needs to prevent that future from happening.

>> "If the future of computing is Apple's locked down iPad and iPhone platforms" This is why I love not being in Silicon Valley. Anyone who thinks the iPad/iPhone is the future of computing is either mad, or in silicon valley.

Have you used one? What evidence are you basing your insult on?

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by zaphar »

joubert wrote: post #46
nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #7

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Why wouldn't you? Paid-for apps have been available for over a year now on the Android Market, assuming you live in a region where Google can take payments from...

I don't know anybody with an Android phone, so I will ask: so you can have a phone experience without ads all over the place? I just assumed that you might have ads here and there, since that is Google's business model.

I don't remember the last time I saw ads on my nexus phone. I think I had an app once months ago that had in app ads but that's the only one that comes to mind. IME they are far from the norm on the phone.

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by sp332 »

vaporstun wrote: post #54
benologist wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought an HP TX1000 like 3 years ago, and it wasn't the first by far. http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx10...

cwilson said "touch enabled Tablet" Touch enabled the TX1000 is not, it uses a stylus.

It will still work with a finger, it's just that apps not optimized for fingers require the precision of a stylus to do useful work.

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by dminor »

swombat wrote: post #12

The whole Android vs Chrome OS thing smacks of a badly planned platform strategy. Seems like both OSes are suitable for tablets, and both are being developed (by different departments, no doubt) for that purpose.

Google is a search company. Their platform strategy is "encourage open platforms".

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by jsz0 »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #48
axod wrote: post #40

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It's a very funny bubble to watch. I just can't see it going mainstream.

Apple's move seems to be based partly on the success of the iPhone but partly on the fact that they can't make a cheap, intel netbook without destroying their brand values, and can't make an ARM netbook without breaking compatability. (The latter applies to Microsoft too). The fact that you can buy an external keyboard (a very un-Apple move) suggests they'd have shipped a conventional laptop form factor if they could…

ARM netbooks have an uphill battle. When most people see something that looks like a computer they expect it to run Windows.

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by proee »

timf wrote: post #28

I'm more interested in this Adam tablet (also based on Android). It can do BOTH e-ink (best feature of the Kindle) and full color LCD: http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php

FYI, it's not sporting e-ink but rather a transflective display. Not even close to what the kindle is using...

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by timf »

proee wrote: post #67
timf wrote: post #28

I'm more interested in this Adam tablet (also based on Android). It can do BOTH e-ink (best feature of the Kindle) and full color LCD: http://www.notionink.in/adamfeature.php

FYI, it's not sporting e-ink but rather a transflective display. Not even close to what the kindle is using...

Thanks for pointing that out, I embellished too much by saying it _is_ e-ink

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by mattmanser »

axod wrote: post #40
hyperbovine wrote: post #38

It's interesting to see tablets being knighted as the Future of Computing by MSM and the tech industry when it's not at all clear that people actually want them. After controlling for the fanboy & factor, reviews for the iPad seem to be mixed. I don't think it's exaggerating to say that the form factor just might not be a good match for a lot of people.

It's a very funny bubble to watch. I just can't see it going mainstream.

I totally can. Lounging watching TV, pick up the tablet from your coffee table, check out facebook, see what's on at cinema, check latest score on the tablet, pop it back down again? Quick check of email, only need to write back a couple of lines, not at work after all.

Much easier to use than red button on tv. Much better than a notebook or laptop. Much less intrusive than them too.

I think they'll turn out to be totally handy, laptops and desktops will start gathering dust until people who don't need to write articles or code for a living wonder why bother buying a new one?

Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by ryanhuff »

macrael wrote: post #61
dustingetz wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

their core product is advertising; and all these other services exist to augment such. google's leadership is quite clearly on their A game.

I don't think so. Advertising is where they make their money, but Google's core competency is storing and making sense of massive amounts of data. That is what they do better than everyone else, advertising is just how they monetize it.

I agree, and that's why I think its hard for Google to do high-touch consumer services, and why I am pessimistic about their ability to pull off a mass-market consumer oriented tablet.
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