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Google Preparing iPad Rival?
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.
Apple's model will always compromise developer flexibility when user experience is at stake. Google's model will always compromise user experience when developer flexibility is at stake.
People will choose based on what is important to them.
That's the most succinct and accurate synopsis of these two companies I've ever seen. Give this man a cookie.
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I'm not sure that's as accurate as you say.
I think "People will buy what they're told to buy" is a better way to put it. Very little "choice" is involved. There's a reason that companies like Apple spend more on marketing than R&D. Because marketing "just works". Even if (or maybe especially if) you're someone who believes that advertising "doesn't really affect me" and that you're immune to marketing. I hear that a lot around here, and advertising executives get a big kick out of that.
Believe me, marketing is a lot more powerful than you are. It works on a part of your brain over which you have little control unless you've spent the last 20 years meditating in a Buddhist monastery.
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