HTC Planning Black Friday Launch of Chrome Tablet

By solid it take it you mean "pretty good" instead of solid as in well-manufactured, as opposed to the HTC EVO 4Gs that are falling apart?

I understand the problems with the EVO, but we do not know if it was cheapened to suit Sprint or just a mistake in design, like the iPhone 4 issues.

I understand the problems with the EVO, but we do not know if it was cheapened to suit Sprint or just a mistake in design, like the iPhone 4 issues.

I'd say manufacturing error. For the iPhone, I wouldn't say a mistake in design since it apparently happens to less than one percent of users.

Google Chrome is an interesting choice. It was envisioned as the new OS for low-power netbooks to compete with Windows and popular Linux flavors, not mobile computing like phones and tablets. It won’t be able to leverage Android’s popularity, especially for relative ease of use and applications.

Prediction: Within 24 hours of release someone will have Android running on it and an image will be posted to the Internet for people to download and install. Within a couple of years, Chrome will be forgotten, any technologies rolled into Android.

I think you are right.

I cannot imagine WHY Google would be so schizophrenic on having two different OS’s for devices?

Part of the magic is iOS runs everything for Apple’s NON PC line.

Is this Google saying Android has problems and we cannot get it to DO all things iOS does so we need our own skin over Linux for an OS? Or is it that they want a Tablet that IS a computer and not really a “device” like iPad?

Still trying to figure this one out.

Yeah, but it seems like Chrome is a REAL “PC” level OS. I’ve heard it is just a skin really and not all that much changed from the generic linux kernel.

So, by forgoing Android on a tablet, WHAT are they saying?

A) Android is not robust enough and we don’t have enough apps to make a tablet as functional as the iPad?

B) Android COULD do it, but we think people will want to do FAR more things, like a netbook, so we are going Full OS?

Something esle?

It does not make sense to have an App OS like Android and limit it to just phones. Unless they are STUCK with it due to the total lack of manufacturing design controls.

This is th beauty of iOS. It runs EVERYTHING. iPods, iPhones, iPads and maybe the new iTV.

THAT means one app, one code, one designer and 4 or more target devices.

Where as if Google has Chrome for Tablets, and Android for phones, and several versions of each, it will get VERY hard to manage any sort of quality controls. And they have had more than enough problems in the QC as it is, you’d think they’d be all about setting SOME standards and not just running off with whatever fits at the time.

Yes?

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