“While some will point to the Galaxy Tab as the flaw in this statement, the device features all the connectivity of the Galaxy S, making it essentially a larger phone rather than a standalone tablet,” Beavis reports. “‘We saw at IFA 2010 all sorts of devices running Android, so it already running on tablets,’ said Hugo Barra, director of products for mobile at Google. ‘But the way Android Market works is it’s not going to be available on devices that don’t allow applications to run correctly. Which devices do, and which don’t will be unit specific, but Froyo is not optimised for use on tablets. If you want Android market on that platform, the apps just wouldn’t run, [Froyo] is just not designed for that form factor.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Have fun trying to market your fake iPads after that, knockoff artists.
This is going to be fun to watch . . . . . iPad 2 will be in the mix early next year, magic.
Chaos. Real consumer-friendly…
The rumors of the iTablet were rife for years before the iPad finally came out, but apparently nobody but Apple took those rumors seriously ;^D
Long productive lead time.
Getting something to “work” is not that same as making a usable polished product.
Often these two things are years and years apart.
I love these comedy presentations. They’re even better than reality TV.
I always thought Android was just the carrot to quickly get device manufacturers and carriers to come to rely on Google, taking advantage of opportunity of the rise of iPhone and downfall of old mobile players, while it works on the OS that it knows will be the ultimate Google platform. When the Chrome OS is available most Dell-alikes will fall in line.
The risk to the strategy is that once some device makers have Android they think they have the software to compete with anyone, and the regular FOSS splinter grows uncontrollably. I think Chrome OS will be free but not without strings attached to reign in the drone companies.
Apple has always been good at transitions: when the ipad first came out apples forward compatibility allowed unmodified apps to scale up to the screen size. I’d like to see android do that. But I highly dought it could compete with apple’s stuff. especially since the mac touch is coming
Google: “Android not yet ready for tablets”
Anyone who has actually used an iPhone: “Android not yet ready for smartphones”
While Google were busy ripping off the iPhone, little did they know that the iOS was originally designed for a tablet.
Steve Jobs and Apple played a great move in releasing the iPhone before the iPad; while everyone is looking at the iPhone, they don’t see the iPad coming.
It must have been a lot easier to scale down the iPad OS to iPhone form factor than vice versa.
Google shot themselves in the foot by going straight for the phone first……..haha!
Shocker!!!
Apple’s usual strategy – Release products with distinctive and desirable features that are difficult to replicate in competing products. Over time, add new features. Use the product’s popularity to entice support from third parties and add even more features. Repeat…
Apple did this with iPod, releasing it just for Mac OS users initially, then expanding to Windows, then adding the iTunes (Music) Store service, then expanding to other types of media content (such as videos and games). Then let iPod touch take over as the primary “iPod” and mirror iPhone…
Apple did this with iPhone, releasing it initially with EDGE (2G wireless) and just the pre-installed native apps, then upgrading to 3G and adding third-party native apps (the App Store), then adding third-party app multi-tasking. And along the way, add other hardware features such as compass, video camera, gyroscope, Retina Display…
Apple will obviously follow the same path with iPad (and also Apple TV), adding new hardware and software features at each anniversary.
The competition’s strategy – Copy Apple.
Here’s the major problem with the competition’s strategy. At any point, you have to match what Apple has already accomplished. So not only do you have to do a “rush job” to get a product to market, you have to do everything Apple worked on for several years (often over several iterations) in just a few months. You can’t spend any longer doing it because by the time you are done, Apple has moved on to the next level. And that becomes an insurmountable task.
Microsoft provides great examples. By the time they released Zune, a media player had to have an online music store. So Microsoft had to create the player AND the music store service at the same time, and release them simultaneously. It always seemed like they were releasing what Apple had two years ago, except executing poorly. By the time they release Windows Phone 7, it is the expectation that smart phones have third-pary apps. So they are now scrambling to release this new platform, “bride” developers to create apps, and setup the infrastructure to have their own fully stocked “app store.” And unlike Apple, Microsoft has to do it all at once. And again, it will seem like something Apple had two years ago.
So the story will repeat with iPad. Despite all the stories about competing products “coming soon,” the competitors are trying to do in a few months what Apple worked on with considerable resources for several years. And they can’t do it. By the time there is a reasonably competent alternative to today’s iPad, Apple will have moved on to the next level. The competing product will look like something Apple had two years ago.
Have fun with your delusions.
In a few years time Android will dominate the market.
iOs will be a niche player, a repeat of the eighties.
@ PcGuy
iOS is not the product. iPhone (along with iPod touch and iPad) is the product. Therefore, it’s not iOS competing against Android; Apple’s iPhone is competing against RIM’s Blackberry whatever, Motorola’s Droid whatever, HTC’s Evo whatever, Samsung’s Galaxy whatever, etc. Or it’s iPod touch against its currently non-existant competition (or Zune HD if you can call that competition). Or it’s iPad against its currently “vapor” or midget-tablet competition. With iPad, the more likely outcome is a repeat of iPod’s dominance, not the “eighties.”
And even with Mac OS, it’s not Apple against Microsoft. It’s Apple against Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba, etc… you know, the other hardware makers. And in that game, Apple is breaking quarterly Mac sales records, making most of the available profit in the industry, and even gaining in market share. I’d hardly call that being a “niche player.”
Why isn’t Android 2.2 suitable for the tablets? Because Apple has already flushed out the big mole. So Google is trying other ways to get to the iPad’s secret by flashing big ca$h to potential Apple moles.
@PCGUY
In a few years there will be 10 or more virus protection programs available for Andriod devices and everybody will hate Andriod devices.
Uh… Huh-huh. Beavis!!
These so called “tinkerers” that love windows so much are basically thieves.
The main reason they hate the app store system is that it makes it so very obvious that you are stealing if you don’t go along with the “walled garden”.
Like windows, android aids and abets the theft of i.p. It is as simple as that.
Android is just filling that gap left by M$.
@ Dijonaise:
Yes, the truth!
Windows tinkerers are all about stealing software and anything else they can get their nasty little windows paws on.
Its always been that way.
Microsoft dont give a shit because they already sold the OS to dell, HP, etc. etc.
Android is the same.
Apple is only OK if you are a reasonable person who wants to create and work with his/her computer.
So if you are a stinking little thief and a jailbreak thief to boot, dont buy any Apple products because they arent for you.
Get yourself a hacked together, virus-sodden winbox and crawl into a greasy corner and pirate all day and all night.
@peecee guy
I usally don’t bite when trolls come fishing, but you are a fsckng moron.
“But the way Android Market works is it’s not going to be available on devices that don’t allow applications to run correctly. Which devices do, and which don’t will be unit specific”
Okay, I’m confused.
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