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How Google Will Bury The iPad

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the content has some logical thought to it, but the title just makes me want to "this is sparta" kick my screen across the room.

1) google apps has great adoption and im personally all for web apps. iwork ipad edition might match gapps in revenue actually. it's about all the cloud apps, not JUST google's.

2) ebooks? okay, so what. that's like saying, oh it has an mp3 player or music store attached.

3) The large ipod touch thing doesn't work. tablets are tablets. if you say the ipad is a souped up ipod touch, then an anroid tablet is a souped up nexus one. oh, and ipad is getting more "computer" like processes with os4 ie- multitasking.

4) Actually the iPad can be used with any carrier (that's gsm sim i believe), no contracts. People have already hacked other carriers to go on it. its just the low profile sim card. scissors+normal sim = low profile sim.

5) the ups guy doesnt actually pick the technology. g maps and g calendar is available on the ipad as well. odds are ups would use a custom app. in that case, g maps is available as well via the api.

Seriously, i refuted this entire article in about 5 minutes while taking a shit because i was bored. I'm sure inc took a ton of time on this article (dont ask how) and paid good money. Google can certainly produce an ipad competitor(s), but this article isn't showing how.

What's funny is if you use this article's twisted logic than the Microsoft's old Tablet PC would bury them both. I'll run down the list.

1. Microsoft Office is more well known than Google's apps or iWork

2. Windows can run Amazon's Kindle App

3. A full-on Windows computer is "more like a tablet computer" than an Android tablet would be

4. Tablet PCs are still offered by Dell, HP, etc.

5. Microsoft's more business oriented than either Google or Apple.

This article is complete crap and has no business on HN.

Apple Killer, iPhone Killer, iPad Killer. Enough talk, let's see it. Until someone else comes along and delivers the user experience and hardware quality Apple is putting out-I don't want to hear it. No doubt the Android-based tablet will be great, but it's not killing the iPad.

Why do we have to "kill" anything? Use whatever works for you and stop trying to convince everyone else you're king of the mountain.

4. For all the same reasons the Droid is shaking up the iPhone; touch screen tablets will wage the same war just on another battlefield. Google's Android is making headway because its available on multiple brands of devices and with multiple carriers. Apple let's you use AT&T, AT&T or AT&T on their hardware. Period.

Wrong, the iPad isn't carrier locked at all. Sure, they use microsims and only let you take advantage of 3G on att's frequency, but that's definitely an asterisk, not a period.

Thinking that having a strong business niche equates to "burying" the iPad is missing the whole point about as widely as is possible.

If we look at the Nexus One, and how Verizon (and the other carriers slated to ship it) handled that situation, I don't think the relationship between Google and [insert carrier name] is anywhere near as tight as Apple and AT&T.

The carriers invariably want to assert their own will on Android to make it somehow more in line with their own business models . . . which is precisely why I bought the N1 direct from Google.

And speculate as we may about Apple's frustration with AT&T, they have been very loyal partners, validated once again with the iPad.

what dear Renee forgets is that all google's apps are web based.

Picasa, Sketchup, Chrome, and Android are not web-based.

Isn't Chrome, by definition, web-based?

Not until you can run it inside another browser (Google Chrome Frame excluded).

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