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Re: Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad

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Post by mkramlich »

cabalamat wrote: post #33
dustingetz wrote: post #21

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

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.

Google's best chance to prevent that future from happening is to build some sort of Terminator unit, and send it back in time to kill Steve Jobs and prevent Apple from being founded. Android: coincidence?

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Post by awad »

brianobush wrote: post #53
dannyr wrote: post #44

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Definitely agree. I moved to the Bay Area over a year ago. Most people think that the IPhone rules the mobile phone market. Some people even say that Android will be dead soon because everybody would just buy an IPhone. The truth is go outside the Bay Area and IPhone is not as prevalent. My non-Bay Area friends have an Android or Blackberry aside from the IPhone. IPhone is also not the best-selling smartphone line in…

It depends on market segment: among teenage girls, I don't think the blackberry is the device to own. Of course, it is for corporate users. Overall, I don't know what the breakdown is, but a chart would be enlightening.

Actually, you'd be surprised. This is purely anecdotal, of course, but around New York City, I see more girls with a Blackberry than iPhone. BBM is really hot. I would say it's the new AIM.

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Post by hyperbovine »

mattmanser wrote: post #69
axod wrote: post #40

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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 to…

My iPod can do every one of those things you mentioned at a fraction of the weight, size, and cost. Why would I buy a tablet? This was exactly my point--tablets occupy a gray area between laptops and iPhones and the jury is still out on whether there is any value there.

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Post by oakenshield »

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.

I feel that it is indeed going to be a revolution of sorts, and people who don't use computers professionally will start using tablets in their work. Tablets have the opportunity to become much more pervasive: laptops by design require folks to sit down, but tablets have a nicer form factor that could replace virtually anything people use while standing up/on the move: writing pads, file folders, electrical/electronic measurement equipment(with Apple approved connectors, of course), etc. Lots of professions could benefit from a usable tablet design --- doctors, field engineers, etc.

The show Stargate Atlantis shows an amusing example of one "future". Stuck in a dead spaceship on the bottom of the ocean with air running out and water leaking in? Not to worry, just hook up your tablet to the system and hack it. For Rodney Mckay, difficult takes a few seconds. Impossible -- a few minutes.

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Post by axod »

mattmanser wrote: post #69
axod wrote: post #40

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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 to…

>> " 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."

This is how most people use a laptop/netbook.

I'm with you on TV. No one wants to use their TV for internet/computing.

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Post by jamesbritt »

mattmanser wrote: post #69
axod wrote: post #40

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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 to…

This is how I use my g1. Check some sites, answer mail, make some notes to myself.
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