Google Tablet: Will it Bring Down the Kindle Fire or iPad? - myersborceir

Google may follow working along its own tablet, but no one knows whether that device will compete with the iPad Oregon go after the Kindle Attack, as DigiTimes suggested in a report. According to the Island site, officials in Google's append chain believe the company is targeting the Kindle Fire with its own 7-in $200 tablet running on Android 4.0.

Google Chief operating officer Eric Schmidt aforementioned in December that the company planned to unloose a tablet in the next six months, mimicking Google's Nexus brand for smartphones. The tablet would be "of the highest quality," Schmidt said in the interview with an Italian newspaper, fueling more surmise more or less a Google-proprietary tablet that began in March finale year.

In the tablet market, devices operative the Android OS failed to part, as iPads outsold other tablets by a ratio of close to 10 to 1. Even among the non-iPad pad of paper sales, Android tablets were keister HP's out of print TouchPad, according to NPD figures. And in to a lesser degree two months since it was launched, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet managed to become the number cardinal tablet later the iPad because of its low price of $199. So after it bought Motorola for $12.5 billion, Google can finally step in and prepare a benchmark among collaborator pill manufactures, just like it did with Link smartphones.

Going after number single or numeral 2?

The pad of paper market represents a slightly assorted gainsay for Google than the smartphone market, where Android has already North Korean won (in sales). Google can either pursue Apple's model to green goods high-terminate tablets, where the biggest profits are, or IT could pursue the media tablet market, where Amazon is taking a loss on the hardware and hopes to profit from sales from its content ecosystem, including movies, music, books and apps.

Since Google refused to clarify Schmidt's comments for the Italian newspaper publisher regarding the pad, and DigiTimes has a sketchy track record when it comes to guess on unreleased and unannounced products, it's merciless to tell which path the company will choose for its first pill.

One thing is open though: all Google's have-brand devices were built every bit an example to Android manufacturing partners of how the company envisions products carrying the OS. Nexus phones never sold in large numbers and never really posed a threat to other devices made by partner manufactures. Whether Google chooses to chase the iPad or the Kindle Fire, its tablet will follow a mere example of how other Mechanical man tablets need to look and subroutine in order to tackle the market leader.

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