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Google Developing Tablet to Take on iPad!?
via mashable.com
Mashable reports that Google is working hard on developing its own tablet pc. To do so, it is apparently teaming up with HTC again.
So far Google hasn't announced such plans publicly. Since Apple presented its iPad the tablet market has heated up. Other companies (e.g. Nokia) are developing own devices.
I believe tablets are somewhat overrated. They sure are nice gadgets and I can think of several very interesting use cases for them. However, will they really be game changers like the iPhone or the iPod? What do you think?
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Yes it blends or how to break your iPad
This is part of the infamous "Will it blend" series. And just two days after official iPad release the result is out: Yes it blends!
Do not try this at home. Send me your iPad instead. :-)
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Nice article on Apple vs. Google
via businessweek.com
When companies start to imitate one another, it's usually either an extreme case of flattery—or war. In the case of Google and Apple, it's both. They are merely 10 miles apart from each other in Silicon Valley and for almost a decade the two have been on good terms. Apparently, those times are now over.
With the Nexus One, Goole enters the Hardware game - threatening Apples iPhone. Apple recently acquired Quattro Wireless - an upstart advertising company that excels at targeting ads to mobile-phone users based on their behavior. With this acquisition Apple not only aims to create completely new mobile ads, apparently, they want to make search on mobile phones obsolete. An attack directed at the heart of Google.
In the next months the Apple-Google battle might get even much rougher. What happens if Apple decides to dump Google as the default search engine on its devices? This would be an obvious move as it would cut Google off from mobile data that could be used to improve its advertising and Android technology. Nevertheless, Apple needs search on the iPhone. This could even go so far that Steve Jobs could cut a deal with - gasp! - Microsoft to make Bing Apple's engine of choice, or even launch its own search engine.
Very interesting. Let's see how this develops.
PS: In case you missed it: Check out a prediction of mobile trends until 2020 - a look into the future of mobile.
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