So apparently the internet search giant GOOGLE has again partnered with cellphone design company HTC, and is in the developmental stages for their own version of the iPad. Google’s tablet would be running the CHROME browser, which is proprietary to Google, and the main physical design will be coming from HTC (who designs several phones for Google). I can say that I like the way Google does things better than Apple for at least one reason: OPEN SOURCING. Apple is SO proprietary that devices can hardly modified or customized because their software just simply won’t allow for it (not without completely re-programming the device). Google on the other hand, praises open source apps and customized programming for it’s products (mainly the droid phones running Google’s operating system). The two areas I believe Apple has the upper hand, is sleekness of design and innovation. They have perfected the art of making their products very sleek, slim, and lightweight, and in this day and age, smaller is considered better. They have also cornered the market with innovation in that they seem to come up with a lot of great ideas first, leaving everyone else to follow in their shadow, trying to improve on their design. I would certainly be willing to put these two side by side, and see who outperforms who. But I guess we’ll just have to settle for tinkering with the iPad for now, since Google has yet to release such a device. Read more tech info on the Google tab here:
http://gizmodo.com/5438716/google-and-htc-working-on-a-chrome-os-tablet
-Lazy Idiot-

This is great!! What it’ll do is make Apple have to step up their game, and in return it will make Google have to do the same. Then, when one has a much lower price, the other will have to drop their price as well to just keep up with the other.
Anungun,
That’s the greatest thing about competition, it keeps everyone honest so no one can just run away with a higher price tag any time they feel like it. That, and I do think the Google tablet will most likely have some improvements over Apple (we’ll see on that). But I can say I will probably own at least one of these units as soon as the price is more live-able.
-Lazy Idiot-