Thank you for the excellent artical. Bugger apple, might wait for Google. Have 3 ipod thingies, but want something to replace my dead Toshie. Could you ask Google people to have their screen as good as ipad. Also 3G USB plug hole. I live in Australia and have Bigpond broadband, vey fast web.
Again thanks for your professional artical

Maybe it isn't as easy to make a cheap tablet as everyone thinks. You can't just rip the keyboard off a netbook and add a touch screen; you need a new interface to make a touch screen computer usable. We'll just have to wait to see if any new tablets are as easy to use as an Ipad, but so far it looks like Apple sets the standard for touchscreen interfaces and has a big advantage.

Unless Google and HTC etc are willing to put the time into making Android better on larger screens (Not there yet) and also provide content then Android is dead in the water. On phones you really don't have to provide content, just apps. As Apple has brought to the iPad in the slate form factor you are going to need content. Apple has movies, TV shows, books and music. Google right now has none of that easy to tap. Also Chrome OS is not for touch screens yet so that will not fly. By the time someone comes out with good comp for the iPad it will be 3 versions in, if it ever happens. Remember Android is big on phones mostly with people who can't afford an iPhone or don't want to or cant get on ATT. But the ipod touch has no comp out there right now. There are "0" Android devices that fit the bill against the iPod touch. I have the same feeling this will happen with the iPad. People will come out with devices but they will not sell like the iPad and unlike the iPhone there wont be 30 different iPad like devices running Android that people can add up and say that Android is taking over the market.

Any slate device with The Vole's Windows 7 operating system will fail. W7 works on the desktop, but it was never designed for a slate form factor.

That's why smartphone operating systems work so much better in slates. The 2 winners of the slate market will be the same winners as the smartphone market... Apple and Google's Android.

Android will eventually overtake iPhone and iPad, making Android the eventual number one OS worldwide. Microsoft, having soundly lost the slate market (and the phone market), should scurry back into its vole hole and not come out again.

How is $50 cheaper not competative?

32gb Slate = $549
32gb Ipad = $599

good articles by Lawrence Latif.

Clicking well spend.
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