Google Tablet?

[jayducharme]

Funny how Google seems to be running in parallel with Apple....

They're coming out with their own tablet.

 

[*LTD*]

The big question is, where's MS in all of this?

 

[rdowns]

The big question is, where's MS in all of this?

Where they always are. Hanging around, bashing the tech and waiting for the opportunity to steal it.

 

[SactoGuy18]

I would have thought it was a complete joke until you realize that Chrome OS is likely going to be designed so it adapts to a tablet computer very easily. Don't be surprised that Google--using a lot of technology originally developed for the Android cellphone OS--unveils a tablet computer running a touch-enabled Chrome OS by this fall.

 

[kdarling]

The big question is, where's MS in all of this?

As usual, MS depends on OEMs to pick up and run with what MS has started.

MS has been doing R&D with their Codex and Courier projects for years, but don't seem able to get to a market point with them.

And these days, most companies don't have the expensive depth of talent to create or finish such products on their own. HP tries pretty hard, but not quite enough.

 

[clevin]

google's OS model is more like MS than apple, it doesn't bundle the OS to a single hardware set.

Talk about Tablet, wiki says:

The term Tablet PC was made popular in a product announced in 2001 by Microsoft, and defined by Microsoft to be a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" operating system or a derivative thereof.

how exactly suddenly everybody pretend there was no such thing before apple is beyond me.

 

[MisterMe]

...

how exactly suddenly everybody pretend there was no such thing before apple is beyond me.

That might be because nobody—slowly, suddenly, or otherwise—is pretending that there was no such thing as a tablet computer before the Apple [rumored] slate. Quite the contrary. Most users are quite well aware that there have been tablet computers. We are aware that a third-party converted Macs into tablet computers. We are aware of the Microsoft Tablet PC. We are also aware of the fact that they sucked.

It is the recognition of this fact that is at the heart of the criticism of Apple's [rumored] current effort. The thinking goes that Apple's [rumored] slate will not be any more successful than those that went before. Those of us who believe that Apple's [rumored] slate will be successful believe that Apple went to school on the past failures of others.

Whether we are unredeemable skeptics or full-moon believers, our opinions of the Apple [rumored] slate is colored by our knowledge of the previous tablet computer efforts. Now run along, pull out your Tablet PC, and install Windows 7 on it.

 

[gigadigit]

On Google's home page right now, they are celebrating Issac Newton's bday and they have a falling Apple.

 

[Surely]

They should call it the Googlet.

 

[sushi]

The year of the tablet computer!

 

[applebum]

That might be because nobody—slowly, suddenly, or otherwise—is pretending that there was no such thing as a tablet computer before the Apple [rumored] slate. Quite the contrary. Most users are quite well aware that there have been tablet computers. We are aware that a third-party converted Macs into tablet computers. We are aware of the Microsoft Tablet PC. We are also aware of the fact that they sucked.

It is the recognition of this fact that is at the heart of the criticism of Apple's [rumored] current effort. The thinking goes that Apple's [rumored] slate will not be any more successful than those that went before. Those of us who believe that Apple's [rumored] slate will be successful believe that Apple went to school on the past failures of others.

Whether we are unredeemable skeptics or full-moon believers, our opinions of the Apple [rumored] slate is colored by our knowledge of the previous tablet computer efforts. Now run along, pull out your Tablet PC, and install Windows 7 on it.

Please don't confuse him with the facts - it might keep him from being able to use the term "fanboi" somewhere in this thread.

 

[Bonte]

The big question is, where's MS in all of this?

We'll know more this evening, the rumor is that MS will unveil a HP tablet at CES.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/ahead-of-apple-microsoft-and-hp-to-reveal-slate-pc/

But all eyes will be on Mr. Ballmer this week to see if Microsoft and H.P. can out-Apple Apple before Apple Apples.