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Google Reportedly Prepping Android-Based iPad Challenger
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I think what strikes people as odd is that Google seems to be stepping so far outside their domain of expertise to engage in these eat-or-be-eaten fights. Should Goodyear make a tablet to avoid being eaten? Google isn't a computer company, or a hardware company-- they're an advertising company with a focus on data mining.
As I mentioned earlier, I think this is a gambit to avoid being left out of the advertising revenue for mobile devices (iAd is certainly a threat, as were the third party add servers before it), but it's really a stretch. This is the equivalent of Goodyear making electric cars so they don't loose out on the tire sales for green transportation.
I used to like Google, when they didn't wanna 'have everything'. Now, no.
Their Search, Analytics & eMail is good though!
Their Search, Analytics & eMail is good though!
Haha...
ROFL!!
Brilliant!
But he looks totally messianic in these shots!
Excuse me? I got my iPod Touch back when they were FIRST released (it is a 1st gen), and I paid $300 for it so I am not going to sell it when I would get like $100 for it, at most. And I sold my 3GS to pay for my Nexus One. So why don't you just start worrying about your own stuff and I will worry about mine. I am not flaunting anything... I am simply indicating the hardware that I use in my daily life. Oh, and on second glance I did remove iPhone 3GS from my signature a long time ago. I do still own a iPhone 3G, but it is BROKEN. I only own 1 working smartphone, that is hardly redundant.
Should I go accuse the guy who owns a Mercedes and a BWM of flaunting his redundant cars?
My god, I don't feel like I should even need to justify what I own to you.
Google is so poised to be the next Microsoft in this space.
Just like the past Apple has the quality and the lead. Here comes Google primarily providing software (MS sold software) funded by their primary business, advertising. Their OS is open and allows anyone using any tools to build apps for.
I can see a future where Google would have a 90% mobile market share with Android on crappy hardware with ugly and poorly written apps. It'll be a de facto standard simply because of its market share. Just like the Apple/MS battles of a decades past, Apple will have the small but dedicated user base with better but more expensive hardware and software.
History could repeat itself.
Just like the past Apple has the quality and the lead. Here comes Google primarily providing software (MS sold software) funded by their primary business, advertising. Their OS is open and allows anyone using any tools to build apps for.
I can see a future where Google would have a 90% mobile market share with Android on crappy hardware with ugly and poorly written apps. It'll be a de facto standard simply because of its market share. Just like the Apple/MS battles of a decades past, Apple will have the small but dedicated user base with better but more expensive hardware and software.
History could repeat itself.
YUP! I have been saying on here for a WHILE that Google is the new Microsoft!
Competition is good, but lets face it... Eric Schmidt is an infiltrating little BEOTCH!
Is this how the entire industry goes? Apple is awesome, someone infiltrates Apple and steals their ideas? That is what happened the last quarter century with Microsoft, and now Google!
Ya, I know Xerox, but Apple HAD PERMISSION TO DO THAT and the vision of what it was about!
The irony of this post is overwhelming. What do you think the iPad looks like? It looks exactly like a stretched out iPhone OS UI (which is really what it is).
Not as long as HTC is supplying them with the hardware. Those guys are the gold standard in phone hardware as far as I'm concerned. And there are PLENTY of ugly and poorly written apps in the App Store. But I don't see Google becoming anywhere near as powerful in the mobile market as Microsoft was in desktop operating systems. Sure, Apple likes to roll out new features and such at a snail's pace, but I think if faced with a truly serious threat of Google surpassing them, they'd step it up big time. Right now, they don't have to, so they don't.
Have you ever used one? The applications, mail UI, safari UI, etc is ALL different. The UI elements were reworked for the larger screen.
Android tablets (thus far) are just the Android OS on a larger resolution with NO new UI elements.
The iPad is NOT a giant iPod Touch and anyone who says otherwise has never used one.
Ever hear that old phrase "With enough ifs you could put Paris in a bottle"?
Android is doing okay but you're exaggerating. Android's growth is far from exponential.
The latest stats show Android moving from 4% smartphone market share to 9%. That was entirely at the expense of Microsoft and Palm. Apple's market share dropped 1/10 of 1% which is statistically meaningless, especially given that we're approaching the end of a product cycle when fewer people will be buying new iPhones and waiting for the newer models. RIM gained 4%. Thus far, it appears Apple and RIM are unaffected by Android.
As it stands, Android is at 9% and Apple at 25%. Android gained about the same market share they gained in the previous quarter. You should note that that's not exponential growth. If they keep this up this same rate for the next year, then they're catch up with Apple, but that's assuming Android's momentum continues through the next release of the iPhone and the new iPhone OS.
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No it's not. It's MAGICAL!
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No it's not. It's MAGICAL!
Apple Innovates And Competitors Imitiate
Pathetic how all Apple's competitors have adopted the MS business model......"just copy Apple".
I like to reward innovation, not imitation with my $$$$
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Pathetic how all Apple's competitors have adopted the MS business model......"just copy Apple".
I like to reward innovation, not imitation with my $$$$
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I'm a strong supporter of Google, and I support this. I'm not very familiar with Android, but I'd love to see a Chrome OS tablet out there. I think Google comes closest to the sexiness of Apple's products, which is about the only thing I like about them nowadays. Oh and Apple is trying to kill Flash, which I strongly support.
By the way, the fanboi comments that everyone's just copying Apple on everything is hilarious. Keep them coming. Because Apple invented the idea of the tablet, and the iPad is the be all/end all of tablets.
By the way, the fanboi comments that everyone's just copying Apple on everything is hilarious. Keep them coming. Because Apple invented the idea of the tablet, and the iPad is the be all/end all of tablets.
As opposed to Apple taking the ipod UI and stretching it across a tablet without any extra benefits?
Why not wait and see what Google puts out before racing to these boards to bash it? As they've shown with Android, they're capable of putting out quality products when paired with the right hardware manufacturers. The Droid, Nexus One, and the upcoming EVO are all outstanding devices.
Oh my f***ing god, the iPad OS is not just a stretched iPhone OS. Not at all. Why don't you try using one before commenting? There are an incredible quantity of benefits.