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Am I the only one starting to see a pattern here? Why is Google suddenly following in Apple's footsteps after every new product?

by cwilson 17y ago

enjo 17y ago
I can confirm that Google has been working on this for quite awhile. At least 2 years in one way or another. They anticipated the move into tablets and a lot of the work of maturing the Android platform has gone towards that. In this case, they're not following by any stretch. Oh, and while we're at it: It's not like Apple is the first touch enabled Tablet to ever come to market. I would argue that the iPhone is an incremental improvement on the Palm products (the first non-stylus gesture based app I used was SnapperMail way back on the second gen Palm devices).
- dustingetz 17y ago
  the iphone might have been an incremental idea, but that's pretty much irrelevant.
- cwilson 17y ago
  Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I know I couldn't name one. There is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first. Even if you don't count the above it's still the first Tablet worth a damn. As for Google not following Apple... perception is everything. Consumers and really anyone following this epic battle will gloss over when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first, Google was second, just like the iPhone and Android (I believe the same argument can be made there too but no one really remembers or cares about that).
  - memetichazard 17y ago
    In search, Google was not first - yet most people use Google today. Gmail was not first - yet I'm sure it's got a decent slice of the market. Chrome was not first - yet it's been gaining steadily. In a few years nobody will care who was first, just who is current.
  - jdc 17y ago
    Not being able to name a previous tablet computer has more to do with their lack of the iPad's heavy marketing. I'd imagine most of us would have similar trouble naming desktop PCs for the same reason. Maybe that's partly why Apple is having so much more success with their tablet: they're not trying to sell a virtually unknown type of product as a commodity.
  - benologist 17y ago
    I bought an HP TX1000 like 3 years ago, and it wasn't the first by far. http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx1000/tablet_big.jpg http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx10...
    - vaporstun 17y ago
      cwilson said "touch enabled Tablet" Touch enabled the TX1000 is not, it uses a stylus.
      - sp332 17y ago
        It will still work with a finger, it's just that apps not optimized for fingers require the precision of a stylus to do useful work.
  - CWuestefeld 17y ago
    Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I don't know the name of it, but I know that everyone at my doctor's office has one. is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first. Huh? Being bigger than those preceding you makes you the first? What? Apple when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first... I guess you're really a fanboy and believe this. But for those of us who have been watching the computer industry, tablets have been around for quite some time. Microsoft had a version of XP -- a now-discontinued OS -- for them. If you Google for "tablet pc windows xp", the first link you come to -- at Microsoft -- is a page that says it's been retired. Apple has missed at least one whole product cycle already.
gojomo 17y ago
Even if that were true, aren't you glad that they are entering the same markets? Otherwise, Apple's competition might only be the likes of Palm, HP, and JooJoo.
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donaq 17y ago
Perhaps, but that's probably a good thing.

Am I the only one starting to see a pattern here? Why is Google suddenly following in Apple's footsteps after every new product?

by cwilson 17y ago

Am I the only one starting to see a pattern here? Why is Google suddenly following in Apple's footsteps after every new product?

enjo 17y ago

I can confirm that Google has been working on this for quite awhile. At least 2 years in one way or another. They anticipated the move into tablets and a lot of the work of maturing the Android platform has gone towards that. In this case, they're not following by any stretch. Oh, and while we're at it: It's not like Apple is the first touch enabled Tablet to ever come to market. I would argue that the iPhone is an incremental improvement on the Palm products (the first non-stylus gesture based app I used was SnapperMail way back on the second gen Palm devices).

dustingetz 17y ago
the iphone might have been an incremental idea, but that's pretty much irrelevant.
cwilson 17y ago
Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I know I couldn't name one. There is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first. Even if you don't count the above it's still the first Tablet worth a damn. As for Google not following Apple... perception is everything. Consumers and really anyone following this epic battle will gloss over when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first, Google was second, just like the iPhone and Android (I believe the same argument can be made there too but no one really remembers or cares about that).
- memetichazard 17y ago
  In search, Google was not first - yet most people use Google today. Gmail was not first - yet I'm sure it's got a decent slice of the market. Chrome was not first - yet it's been gaining steadily. In a few years nobody will care who was first, just who is current.
- jdc 17y ago
  Not being able to name a previous tablet computer has more to do with their lack of the iPad's heavy marketing. I'd imagine most of us would have similar trouble naming desktop PCs for the same reason. Maybe that's partly why Apple is having so much more success with their tablet: they're not trying to sell a virtually unknown type of product as a commodity.
- benologist 17y ago
  I bought an HP TX1000 like 3 years ago, and it wasn't the first by far. http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx1000/tablet_big.jpg http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/images/full_reviews/hp/tx10...
  - vaporstun 17y ago
    cwilson said "touch enabled Tablet" Touch enabled the TX1000 is not, it uses a stylus.
    - sp332 17y ago
      It will still work with a finger, it's just that apps not optimized for fingers require the precision of a stylus to do useful work.
- CWuestefeld 17y ago
  Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I don't know the name of it, but I know that everyone at my doctor's office has one. is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first. Huh? Being bigger than those preceding you makes you the first? What? Apple when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first... I guess you're really a fanboy and believe this. But for those of us who have been watching the computer industry, tablets have been around for quite some time. Microsoft had a version of XP -- a now-discontinued OS -- for them. If you Google for "tablet pc windows xp", the first link you come to -- at Microsoft -- is a page that says it's been retired. Apple has missed at least one whole product cycle already.

gojomo 17y ago

Even if that were true, aren't you glad that they are entering the same markets? Otherwise, Apple's competition might only be the likes of Palm, HP, and JooJoo.

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donaq 17y ago

Perhaps, but that's probably a good thing.