Looks like Google has decided to compete with Apple by giving stuff away. Very strange business model. I know they want to earn from the advertising but, excuse my french, they just seem to want to f*** Apple at any cost.
“As for the launch date of November 26th, well, that’s all kinds of brilliant. It’s Black Friday 2010 and the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S. — so what better day to have a shiny new tablet in the cabinet at Verizon kiosks and stores all over the country? You can bet Google’s Chrome OS tablet will be heavily subsidized, and I’d go so far as to say it will be substantially cheaper than the iPad — if not totally free — with a Verizon data contract.”
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/08/18/google-verizon-chrome-os-tablet-on-sale-november-26-2010/
GotWake 2:55 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago Reply
What the heck is wrong with these companies? Does anyone outside of the Apple campus know the word “profit”?
Nicu 3:33 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago Reply
they are petrified, scared to death of Apple: Google, HTC, Rim, Nokia, Nintendo, Sony, Dell, Microsoft, HP, Motorola, Intel, LG, Samsung and I surely forget many … they just hope to survive by shamelessly copying Apple (have you seen the latest Web App Store from Google – exact copy of iTunes online, touch mouse from m$ … those are only today)
they hope that they can survive just by hanging together but slowly and surely they’ll follow Palm on that final spiraling
GotWake 5:47 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago Reply
I agree, they are betting that this will play out like the early days of Microsoft vs Apple. All they need to do is gain the lion’s share of the market and they will be kings. It’s rather amusing. The way the competitors (I use the term loosely) talk, Apple is nothing to them. But, their actions speak volumes. Microsoft’s Mac vs PC comparison, Dell’s Apples to Apples, Sony’s PSP to iPhone. It’s just freakin crazy. All they are doing is validating in people’s minds that Apple is the brand to beat.
Nicu 6:21 pm on August 18, 2010 640 days ago Reply
5 of them are in top 10
(+ Adobe)
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/26359/
rastard 1:16 am on August 19, 2010 640 days ago Reply
I think you’re all getting riled up by a “journalist” who doesn’t have a clue. From everything I’ve read about Chrome OS, I seriously doubt the article’s accuracy. Chrome OS is a browser-based OS that only runs webapps — and doesn’t run standalone or downloadable apps the way that the iPhone or Android do (or that Macs or PCs do). So if there is a Chrome OS tablet (no matter how good or bad it might be), it’s just a device that runs a browser — it’s really not an iPad competitor.
“my guess is that the device could be based on NVidia’s Tegra 2 platform and sport a 1280×720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, minimum 32GB SSD, WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE connectivity, GPS, webcam, and possibly expandable storage via a multi-card reader.”
A browser-based OS wouldn’t really need a 32GB SSD or expandable storage — since everything resides in “the cloud”. For that matter, I’m not really sure why it would need a multitouch display either. So color me skeptical.
If a tablet actually is coming out from Google, it would make far more sense for it to be one running Android (and if I recall correctly, several have already been announced, and there’s already one on the market — so that wouldn’t be new news).