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Google Preparing iPad Rival?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the here's-hoping dept.

dazedNconfuzed noted an update in the ongoing rumor train about the Google iPad Competitor. It would be based on Android (not ChromeOS) and supposedly Eric Schmidt was telling people about it at a party in LA recently. If any Googlers want to leak me s3cr3t information, I promise anonymity, though without an actual product, price or date it's tough to get really excited. But the iPad clearly has significant limitations that someone else can capitalize on.

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  1. Teh suXX0rs by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    iPhone/iPad is great because Apple owns every aspect of it.

    An Android "gPad" would suck because Google would have to give up some control to an OEM. The alternative is that they produce the HW themselves, but we saw what happens when they do that (Nexus One).

  2. Re:Fantastic! by Dog-Cow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple brought smartphones to the average consumer. That was a revolution. It doesn't matter if the hardware (or software) was evolutionary.

  3. Re:Archos 7 inch internet tablet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So you can stop regaling people with pointless tales of your lesser devices?

    Great, we get it, you like crap. Some of us have higher standards.

    If there is one downside to the iPad, its all these people who have come out of the woodwork to tell us about their purchase of some other crappy device. iPad has already sold more than Archos 5 ever will.

    The captcha for this post is 'disdain' How perfect. :)