Now what next for Google? Google is planning to build its own slate, an Android based e-reader that would function like a computer. The New York Times reported that Google is to compete with Apple’s iPad with its own modern interpretations of a tablet computing device.
Android is chosen as it’s already well-developed and full-featured to offer all that you get in Apple’s iPad. It is also designed to be used on a touch screen device, something that can’t be said for a desktop OS like Windows 7. Besides, getting data on and off the iPad is still largely done over a USB cable. Android is also the only other real player in apps with the Android Marketplace. One added advantage always remains Google’s service including Google books, the Google Reader and Google Voice which will soon feature desktop VoIP with the purchase of Skype-rival Gizmo. Add in the fact that Google is committed to an open platform for which anyone can develop software. Thus, it can give a tough challenge to Apple’s iPad.
According to the New York Times, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently described the mysterious device to friends in Los Angeles.” Charlie Sorrel of Wired reacted to the report by noting that Android is a “well developed and full-featured” OS capable of taking on Apple’s iPad. “A Google tablet could be the only tablet capable of actually challenging the iPad, avoiding the iPod whitewash in which Apple thrashed everyone, even Sony. It would also have some advantages. Google’s services, for one,” said Sorrel.
Tags: Apple, ceo eric schmidt, desktop os, e reader, gizmo, google, iPad, open platform, touch screen, usb cable, voip
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