Android - iPad Rival?
Acer CEO announced that they will use the Android platform for Acer's new tablet PC. Dell, HP, Toshiba made similar announcements.
Reading between the lines:
Reading between the lines:
- Everybody is trying to catchup to Apple. The tablet PC had a rocky life so far, no PC manufacturer has produced a well-designed, attractive table. Until iPad came into life. Granted, the touch screen technology offered a lot more design flexibility.
- The "other" manufacturers are stunned by the iPad's success. In an economy not fully recovered, people still lined up for hours to pay $400 to $600 for a device that is not even their main computer. Now, everybody is racing to get into the game.
- Microsoft missed the boat - entirely. Official excuse: they have bigger plans. "Touch is a hot commodity across all form factors. Slates are just a small piece of that."
- In an ever effort for world domination, Google offers the Android OS for free. As one of the manufacturers said: "It's hard to beat that price".
- The Android OS might be free, but it comes with extra bonus: bugs. That in top of full conversion from a cell phone platform to a tablet one. Some manufactures fixed and modified the system on their own; others are waiting for Google to finish the tablet version before they use it.
Posted by Terra3.0 at 5/30/2010 7:20 AM 
Categories: New Technology
Tags: Apple Microsoft Technology Google Android iPad
Categories: New Technology
Tags: Apple Microsoft Technology Google Android iPad
Interesting read on Apple's creativeness. I am curious to find out whether Google's strange entry into the open-source would yield a similar or better result with Android and Chrome.
Do you think that the Apple developers hold more creativity than the collective open-source community? It may be a double-edged sword, though, as these communities have been known to fragment over disagreements...
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