2010-01-31
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quote 13:33:49
“ Google has [also] decided to target the market in between the laptop and the mobile phone as well. But whereas Apple is anti-netbook, Google is very pro-netbook — they just want to make them better. That’s the reason behind Google’s Chrome OS, as Google clearly laid out during its unveiling event late last year. ”
MG Siegler in The iPad And Chrome OS Netbooks Are On A Collision Course, a comment piece on TechCrunch that’s, unsurprisingly, garnered far more attention than my effort on the same subject.
Siegler may well be right: Google, especially in the short term, will probably respond to the iPad by ignoring its form, and hoping that new software in traditional hardware is compelling. As Victor Lombardi says, though, the way you use a tablet should be very different from the way you use a laptop (or even netbook).
If Google do ignore tablets, I think it’ll be a mistake for them.
