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Google to Launch Chrome OS Tablet in Late November?

Tegra 2? Bloody hell. That's a fair welly!
I'm tempted. I like the look of that over an iPad.
 
ImageWrangler said:
Considering Google Docs doesn't work on the iPad NOT because of some Apple conspiracy but rather the coding for it uses a type of RTF html-based code called contentEditable, to wit, you can't edit Google Docs on an Android-based phone or any mobile browser, and they're showing a Google Doc icon, which yes, you CAN open a Google Doc on an Android, iPhone, RIM device, iPad obviously, you just can't EDIT it, which, that's part of the appeal of having something like this, a semi-laptop replacement.

If Google can't figure this out, and it's clear they're taking their time making it work on the iPad, it'll really have not a whole love of advantage over an iPad methinks.
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Strange, I just loaded a spreadsheet in Google Docs (using an Android Nexus One) and could update the data.
 
Speedy2 said:
Because it's just a lame 1:1 copy of the iPad concept. Why didn't Google come out with this last year? Or 3 years ago? It's not that hard to think of Android as a tablet OS (Who needs Chrome OS anyway...). They could have had the balls to go first, but no... Apple has to do it, do it right, and then Google just takes the blueprint and copies it. Happened with smartphones, same for tablets now. They can claim all day long they had plans to do this before. Why didn't they release a product then before Apple does??
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Totally agree with you. Well said. Fact is, Apple released the very first successful tablet device and other companies will ride on it and will "copy" ("copied") what works. Competition is good but if the products are more or less copied from a great device then I guess that's not competition but more of an option/alternate for the consumer.
 
hwhalers said:
I'm sure Apple would be horrified, because tablets running desktop OSes have been great sellers so far.
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On the other hand there just hasn't been a good one. Tablet PC's were horrendous back in the day because of terrible touchscreen tech and they were still quite bulky.
2010 - I've no doubt with larger buttons (since touchscreens aren't that precise) a full OS could be pulled off quite easily.
 
My guess is that Google chose Chrome OS because it may actually be charging something to license it. With Android it is all cost and no profit with a hope of some future ad revenue. Apple with two phone models and one carrier receives 48% of the mobile market profits. That is huge and what Jobs is after.

As to HTC/Google/Verizon device, it must be no thicker, no heavier, as easy to use, as many Apps, and the same or better battery life. Nothing else in the specs matter with this type of device. It will not be popular if any of these are missing even if it has 8 GB or RAM, etc.
 
Dagless said:
On the other hand there just hasn't been a good one. Tablet PC's were horrendous back in the day because of terrible touchscreen tech and they were still quite bulky.
2010 - I've no doubt with larger buttons (since touchscreens aren't that precise) a full OS could be pulled off quite easily.
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I have no doubt it could be 'pulled off', but it'll still be a desktop experience on a tablet, which is garbage. People are becoming more and more accustomed to seeing devices like this not as computers but as appliances.
 
Erwin-Br said:
If the vast majority of non-tech people you describe are so dissatisfied with Androids media playback, its interface, or apps, then why is Android doing so well? Surely it aren't the techies driving up these sales?
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Because most people don't know what they are buying. A friend bought a phone because it was "like the iPhone." Now she hates it with a passion and can't wait to replace it.

There are plenty of good products based on iOS/Andriod/Blackberry but your average consumer couldn't tell you the difference between them. What will be interesting will be the replacement cycles. How many of those sales will remain with Android when their contracts are up?

I'm not offering any speculation on that, but it will be interesting to see how the industry shakes out.
 
inkswamp said:
Interesting, but it seems a strategic gaffe for Google and their partners not to leverage Android in a device like this. I guess we have to wait to see the final product before passing judgment but with all the steam Android is picking up, I don't understand maintaining a separate operating system for a tablet device.
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Exactly what I was gonna say. Ballmer was right, Google made a huge mistake by investing on both Chrome OS and Android. If they launched an Android OS, they could have leveraged the App Store and become competitive much sooner.
 
Wow the "cult of apple" is out in full force here. Of course t is just typical apple fanboy behavior, defending the complete money sink that is the ifad.
 
Laird Knox said:
Because most people don't know what they are buying. A friend bought a phone because it was "like the iPhone." Now she hates it with a passion and can't wait to replace it.

There are plenty of good products based on iOS/Andriod/Blackberry but your average consumer couldn't tell you the difference between them. What will be interesting will be the replacement cycles. How many of those sales will remain with Android when their contracts are up?

I'm not offering any speculation on that, but it will be interesting to see how the industry shakes out.
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I purchased an htc droid last christmas before I owned any apple products. I would have went with the iPhone, but AT&T is horrendous in the Midwest. Anyway, I thought my droid was amazing until I picked up an iPad and an ipod touch. Now I hate that d*** phone, the touch interface is terrible, and the lag time on it is just as bad. I don't think anyone can do mobile devices like apple can (crossing fingers for verizon iPhone, but thats a whole other topic).
 
notjustjay said:
2 gigs of RAM.

And how much does the iPad have?

(Note: I don't consider this a real knock against the iPad -- yet -- I'm actually quite impressed that it can hold its own as well as it does. Efficient programming is a good thing on embedded devices.)
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You're comparing a yet to be released product (which for all we know could be vaporware) to a few month old iPad? For all we know Apple could release one November too!
 
I think it's worth pointing out that the initial source for this rumor has essentially retracted it.

And Engadget is reporting from its sources that a tablet of this sort might appear from Google in late 2011.

Update 2: One of our own actually proven tipsters just hit us to say this whole thing -- including launch date -- sounds suspect, and that ARM-based Chrome OS tablets won't hit until late 2011 at least. It'll be Atom-based netbooks until then, we're told. That lines up with everything else we've ever heard from Google and its partners, so we're calling this entirely bunk until we actually see some hardware.
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/18/chrome-os-tablets-coming-from-google-and-verizon-on-black-friday/
 
Even the specs have been retracted (same link as above):

Update: The author of the Download Squad post, Lee Matthews, apparently fabricated all these specs -- in comments, he confirms that they're "pure speculation," and this his source only provided the launch date and Verizon partnership. That part certainly seems plausible, but we wouldn't necessarily believe any of this -- it's pretty suspect to just make things up.
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Since this won't happen until at least late 2011 - how many iPad's would've Apple sold? And by that time there will be iPad 2 - and Android would still be trying to match iPad 1.
Sorry, but Apple has this "tablet" market on lock down for a while ...
 
Erwin-Br said:
Look, Apple has copied the smartphone and the tablet. And improved on it. You seem to agree on that. But now you're saying nobody is allowed to copy the improved version, and improve it further? The epitome of hypocrisy.
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You're reading things into my comments that are not there. Everyone is invited to copy, it's inevitable anyway. But please acknowledge it's a copy and don't pretend someone had an amazing idea here. That's all.

Besides, Apple didn't merely "copy" the smartphone and the tablet. If that were true we'd still be stuck with godawful useless junk that nobody buys. Also, Apple would still be creeping around in the lower ranks of IT business. This forum might not even exist in its current incarnation, and probably, we wouldn't be here talking...
 
eddvedd said:
I purchased an htc droid last christmas before I owned any apple products. I would have went with the iPhone, but AT&T is horrendous in the Midwest. Anyway, I thought my droid was amazing until I picked up an iPad and an ipod touch. Now I hate that d*** phone, the touch interface is terrible, and the lag time on it is just as bad. I don't think anyone can do mobile devices like apple can (crossing fingers for verizon iPhone, but thats a whole other topic).
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Some of the issues might be with the version of the OS you are running. It seems the 2.x OS is much improved over the 1.x OS. In general I've seen people having issues with the UI no matter what the version. My tablet is running Android 2.1 and it still doesn't flow as well as iOS.

As far as my statement about people not knowing what they are getting -- I have repeatedly told my friend to go out and sample the various phones to find the one that will work best for her. Unfortunately I expect she will end up with whatever her rep suggests. That's how she wound up with her current phone.
 
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