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Google Partners With HTC For Latest Nexus Tablet
Rambo Tribble writes The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is partnering with HTC for its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet. Shunning larger manufacturers like Samsung, speculation is that Google is trying to mitigate the effects of market dominance by one firm. When asked for comment, a Google spokesperson only responded, "There's room for many partners to do well and to innovate with Android."
Google Nexus products so far:
1 by HTC
3 by Samsung
2 by LG
2 by Asus
This is hardly a new thing.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I hope to hell it's the standard Android ecosystem (which it should be if it's a Nexus branded one).
HTC's desktop software is complete crap from what I've been able to see of it with my phone.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
... for quite some time now. WSJ posting it doesn't suddenly make it news.
HTC isn't Chinese. It is Taiwanese.
I'm looking forward to seeing their tablet, as I have had generally good luck with their products overall.
HTC isn't a generic Chinese OEM. They have their own line of phones, and some of them are quite popular.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
They also released the first Android phone as well as the first nexus device.
Taiwan is China. China is the '"People's" republic of verbosity in the land that people including geography and history call china and is known a china'
In capitalist China, Communist China invades you.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
And anecdotally, I haven't had any issues with my 2013 Nexus 7. Nor have any other people I know that have one. SPREAD THE WORD!
Exactly the same experience.
I do hope they don't drop the 7.
A 9" screen is not nearly as portable, or as convenient.
I would love to see Google/HTC to aim to work with MS to provide a full Office suite for Android on this tablet....
I'm an Apple fan, but I'd like to see competition so that multiple sides of the competition will strive more for the consumers' benefits.
If you knew anything about Taiwan, you would know why that is a silly statement. You may want to start by looking up the official name of Taiwan, which is Republic of China.
Taiwan is Formosa. China is the mainland. The two, to most Americans (I can't speak for other nations' general attitudes) are not the same.
Taiwan was where Chiang Kai Shek fled when Mao & Company chased him off the mainland. He set up shop there, and the US government (and its allies) backed the new Taiwanese government (which was just the old mainland government, incompletely overthrown). It wasn't until very recently that the chill between the US and the PRC began to ease, and mostly it was due to economic pressure rather than any kind of political agreement.
No amount of propaganda by the PRC is going to change Americans' minds, and the PRC's refusal to accept that Taiwan isn't part of China anymore is viewed as a sort of sad, pathetic, desperate denial of reality.
Taiwan is not China.
Shunning larger manufacturers like Samsung, speculation is that Google is trying to mitigate the effects of market dominance by one firm.
yes, because the nexus line has been such an amazing market success? on the contrary, the nexus lines have sold in relatively low numbers, and very thin profit margins. and AFAICT, that's by design. stock is always extremely limited at launch, and advertising is non-existent.
this is more of a desperation move by HTC. samsung is eating their (and everyone else's) lunch. try something, anything to get a name for themselves.
At first I read it as "Google Partners with LHC", and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
Table-ized A.I.
While they certainly have more in common than say "New Mexico" and "Mexico," the existence of "China" in both of their names doesn't make them the same thing.
I'm fairly certain the people of Taiwan consider Taiwan a different place than China -- enough so that they have the whole Taiwan name and all.
I'm sure they would prefer to let the market decide that bloatware is bad.
Then why doesn't Google let the Android Market decide by including a line in the CDD stating that if you include X, Y, or Z your phones won't get Google Play Store? Google already does that for certain variants of multi-window mode because Google wants to enforce an all maximized all the time use model even if your 10" tablet is as big as two Nexus 7s or four Nexus 5s.
Then please, please stop buying branded phones from operators.
Good luck getting any service that way if the only cellular carriers with a usable signal in your area are CDMA2000 carriers like Verizon and Sprint. I'm under the impression that they won't just sell you a CSIM for an unbranded CDMA2000 phone.
you can disable any android app from running ever and from showing up in the launcher
But without rooting, you can't recover the gigabytes occupied by this preinstalled bloatware that you could otherwise have been using to store music and e-books.
Don't people just drag MP3's from their computer to their phone in Windows Explorer? I don't understand the need for music transferring software.
If you want to transfer only the subset of your MP3 collection contained in a specific set of playlists, then you may need software to construct the copy job, even if it's just a shell script that parses the m3u files. And until very recently, you needed to install software to connect an Android 4.x phone to a PC because some operating systems didn't come with MTP automounting.
Why would anyone other than a hedgefund manager care about this?
Because it may influence whether Sega decides to port Sonic the Hedgefund Manager to Android or keep it console-only.
I've had great luck with the 2013 N7 as well. No bloatware, rooted, has a utility that does a TRIM command every so often, and I can SSH into it if I need a file I'm working on. It is a nice medium size for reading.
The Android sites also show that Android L is working on the N7, so it should be supported in the next OS rev.
Interesting, that. I've heard a lot of people make similar claims, but the three units I have myself (development purposes) work fine. However, some guys I work with recently started using the N7 2013 as base for a university automation project, and have gotten hundreds of them. Apparently, dozens of their units were dead on arrival, and of those that work out-of-the-box a significant number of them randomly just die. Less than a year after the start of the project, near to a third of the units is dead.
I had also expected the N7 to stay available alongside the N9, but according to these same guys it is very difficult to still get units in significant amounts. Shops are starting to delist them, which to me indicates that they are end-of-life and the soon to be released N9 will replace the N7, rather than augment it. I sincerely hope I am wrong here.
I'm fairly certain the people of Taiwan consider Taiwan a different place than China -- enough so that they have the whole Taiwan name and all.
Actually It's a moving target over 40 years or so...
From the end of WWII the occupiers of Taiwan (basically the retreating/invading Chiang Kai-shek govt) pretty much considered themselves the exiled government of mainland china, thus calling themselves the Republic of China. The ground started significantly changing in 1971 when after UN resolution 2758 passed, mainland china (aka the People's RoC) was able to reclaim their UN seat which. Eventually, the notion that the RoC (aka Taiwan) was a different place than china all but faded by 1991as by then most in the RoC conceded that mainland china was lost (to the PRoC) by forcing the resignation of the so-called "representatives" tied to legacy captured provinces in the mainland.
Of course as with most things Taiwanese, it ain't that simple.
Some of people of Taiwan were repressed by the retreating CKS occupiers from the mainland (not much different than the Japanese), but that distinction is often not understood by those outside of Taiwan (see the 228 incident). If you know people from the south part of the island (e.g, Kaoshung, or Tainan), many still hold a grudge, and think of both remnants of the CKS government and the mainland as the enemy. These folks form the basis of the pan-green coalition (not to be confused with the environmental green party movement, but one favoring Taiwan independence) to oppose the pan-blue coalition (remnants of the CKS/KMT government + other parties favoring close ties with the mainland).
Of course, the people of mainland china don't see things that way at all. The see it as formosa island/taiwan provence which was historically part of mainland china (except for the time the Dutch and Japanese occupied it, of course). RoC is generally pissed about how the US handled the disposition of Taiwan after WWII (with the Treaty of Peace with Japan aka Treaty of San Francisco to which the RoC and PRoC were not invited). Basically the island of Formosa/Taiwan was treated the same as occupied territory whose responsibility was given to the US, but whose final fate was undecided (much less complicated, but similar to Berlin). In contrast, the Treaty of Taipei (a separate peace treaty between PRoC and Japan) further complicated the matter by obfuscating the issue of Taiwan by reclaiming it for the PRoC even though Japan had no authority to grant it at that point having ceded authority over Taiwan in Treaty of San Francisco...
Thanks. Neat.
Up next, Hong Kong :)
Thanks. Neat.
Up next, Hong Kong :)
Back in 1997, most of the people of hong kong went relatively peacefully into the Chinese fold (or just simply left before it happened like my grandparents)...
On the other hand, you might think of the people in southern Taiwan as kind of like a mix of US southerners and Texans...
Even if Taiwan is eventually ceded back to China, some of them will likely still hold a N/S civil war grudge for a few generations, and other will continue to claim some right to secede into a lone star state (mostly in an appropriate alcohol based setting with sufficient lubrication, of course). At least there aren't likely to be many guns involved in taiwan... ;^)
Are French and German people both European? Are North and South Koreans both Korean people?
Well, DPRK != ROK, yet they are both Koreans. The fact is that both the mainland and taiwanese people consider Taiwanese people as Chinese people. You may want to consider that 'Chinese' is a bigger term than just PRC.
New Mexico and Mexico are not the same thing, but they are both in the Americas. North and South Korea are not the same thing, yet both people are Koreans.
So how is that possible, if they have their own name too?
Please ask any Taiwanese person about this, and you will hear the same thing. Taiwanese people consider themselves Chinese. You can try all you want to claim that 'China' is only the mainland part. But that doesn't make it true, and in fact is insulting to both Taiwanese and mainland chinese people.
But I don't want a small 9" tablet, I want at least 10" or an 11" Nexus tablet. with small bezels (at least as small as my current Xoom Wifi)..
At the moment there isn't a great 10" tablet which is just as simple looking but rugged quality. I would like the back to be of the same rubbery kind as the nexus 5, that has a soft feel, and even with a bit of sweaty palms still stays in your hands.. And no hardware buttons other than on/off switch on the back (like the xoom) and a volume control..