Motorola today debuted a teaser video for its Android tablet unveiling at CES event on January 5th:
MacDailyNews Take: Putting the critically-panned Galaxy Tab after the iPad as if it is some sort of evolutionary step is foolish. Yes, chronologically, the Galaxy Tab came after the iPad (it had to, of course; without iPad, there would be no fake iPads from Samsung et al.), but the Galaxy Tab is obviously an inferior, derivative device. We’d have a lot more respect for these me-too wannabe companies if they just came out and gave Apple credit for repeatedly changing everything and providing the models for the rest of the world to follow (personal computer, PDA, portable media player, smartphone, tablet). Of course, Mimicola doesn’t only disrespect Apple, they also don’t respect their potential customers’ intelligence; they think they’re stupid enough to believe that an iPad is “like a giant iPhone” and nothing more than “a giant iPhone” (despite it having no phone at all). The fact is that there are two transformative devices that Mimicola tries to copy nowadays: iPhone and, soon it seems, iPad. Giving credit where credit is due would be the right thing to do, but these amateurs know, subconsciously at least, that they’re trying to knock off Apple innovations, so they are incapable of doing the right thing. They have no shame. It’s sad.
Other sites are suggesting that the bee indicates that the silk handkerchief will be using Android Honeycomb.
Overall, the ad is too long-winded for my liking.
@ SamDS
Don’t know what school you went to- But since you’re both incapable of spelling the simplest of words correctly; And incapable of stringing a handful of words together in a coherent sentence- My bet is that you’re both an Android user and a buffoon.
You and Moto deserve each other, enjoy being flushed down the tank!
Fact: Itunes ROKR launched on September 7, 2005 http://goo.gl/yOqQ
Fact: Motorola Collaborated with APPLE and gave them all the design/hardware specs for the device ie antenna/rf etc etc
Fact: Iphone was introduced on January 9, 2007
Question to Apple fanboys/lemmings: The IPhony was launched 1 year, 4 months, 2 days later??? hmmm that interesting
You want to tell me the thief that is Steve Jobs/Apple built the hardware/software for the IPhone in 1 year, 4 months, 2 days??
Answer: NO!!!!!!
So the Question becomes: Why Collaborate with Motorola on the ROKR? if you’re already designing your own phone? hmmmm
WAKE Fanboys everyone copies everyone and if you think APPLE didnt steal from moto first youre all retarded! Motorola is the creator of the Cell Phone and has the most advance RF technology in the World apple had no idea how to make a quality RF device and even after stealing motorola designs they’re still lost!
Question: Is george is pathetic buffoon?
Answer…
George,
That Motorola iTunes phone was a piece of shit. Apple didn’t steal from Motorola.
Motorola ROKR:
http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2005/09/07/motorola-rokr-e1
Apple’s iPhone:
http://www.howardchui.com/2008/07/
Tell me, George, what did Apple steal exactly?
You, sir, are retarded.
Yeah, it’s gonna be a giant disappointment when they unveil the thing. Whatever OS they gonna come up with will have no chance to compete.
So it’s gonna be Googloid spyware running it…. Yaaaawwwwn made by idiots for idiots.
Motorola is flailing around in water too deep for them to tread. This ad stinks of such desperation, it’s funny. I wonder how many times a day they think back to the Razr days.
Oh please please please moto — PLEASE believe your own hype! Between you and RIM I can sit on the sidelines and watch your arrogance self-destruct.
As Apple stock has a new closing high. Yeah!
Wow, is George your typical Googloid customer, delusional, hysterical, ignorant, insane?
Nice 1998 era CGI they used on that video.
@C1-Dynabook only made it to mockup. DynaMac, on the other hand, let you lug around a 18# portable and was produced. Alas, it was not a tablet.
The iPad may come as close to any product to Alan Kay’s Dynabook concept. Education apps are already being released for iPad and the DynaBook was a children’s learning appliance, in a tablet form factor.
This is a long shot, but could the bee represent BeOS? Maybe “dano” has been licensed from Palm/HP.
Damn, I didn’t know The Ten Commandments were written in English!
If I had a tablet (or any product) from Motorola I wouldn’t want anyone to see it either!
As for the rest of the commercial, it is typical of them as a company (racehorse taped to a rocket). Use a jr. college level CGI class to put together a vaporware commercial and hope that the same people who think the droid will sprout robotic arms and legs while self-dialing are in the market for a tablet.
@bluejay
“ive got to admit this is a pretty cool video irregardless of how crappy that moto tab will be”
ive <– No.
I’ve <– Yes.
irregardless <– No.
regardless <– Yes.
And since I’m already here, bein’ all superior like;
After this teaser, Motorola’s rayon handkerchief better be running BeOS.
Hey give em a break.
Look they discovered that the X commandments were written in English! perhaps Before the British Isles were settled.
Now that is really stupid!
As I wrote in response to a similar article:
“Better a giant iPhone than a giant turd. And besides, what’s wrong with a giant iPhone? Sounds kinda cool!”
If the iPad was just a giant iPhone, boy would those graphics be scary.
Well that was stupid. And what’s with the bee? Motorola belongs in the stone age…
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Wow, cool, Motorola CES 2011, I am really looking forward. In other words, I am more looking forward the war among tablets on 2011. iPad sales very successfully this year, Galaxy tab too, but they may not have such a smooth trip as which will meet a lot of competitors such as Playbook, Motopad. I am more concerned about the iPad.With the growth of competitors, I think iPad should be cheaper, but I am still expect the new iPad will bring a big surprise for us iPad users. at the same time, Aneesoft free iPad video converter is also a nice gift for us.
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The bee refers to the new android OS…. Honeycomb.
Obviously they’re hinting that their device will be running the new Android designed specifically for tablets.
Will it really make any difference? Of course not. It’ll suck.
It’s a bad porno or game interlude, gonna be a cult fave!
Silk hanky indeed!
OK, I got it.
Their tablet will be named “bee plan”, the tablet for those must for some raison compromise on the user experience…
What is google’s rumored release date for the tablet version of android?