7-inch Google Tablet Coming From ASUS 151
First time accepted submitter Sez Zero writes "Google and ASUS have been collaborating on a co-branded 7-inch Android tablet, with a launch as early as May, according to sources, challenging low-cost rivals and the iPad with a $199-249 price tag. The fruits of the partnership, whispered to the runes readers at DigiTimes by industry sources, will take on the NOOK Tablet and the Kindle Fire, with ASUS selected for its willingness to flex to Google's requirements."
Google is going for low price (Score:2, Insightful)
Which hurts the quality of the product and hardware. This has been a huge problem with Android - customers don't really know if they get a good product or not. When they get iPad or iPhone they know exactly that they will love the experience. Android ecosystem is a complete mess.
Re:Google is going for low price (Score:3, Insightful)
Your stance is exactly why Apple can charge so outrageous prices for their products and get away with it.
Seriously, most Android phones are excellent, are fast enough for their purpose and are well built. How many have you tried?
When people compare Android phones to iPhones they often compare the CHEAPEST model to to the most expensive phone on the market! FAIL - try comparing a midrange price Android to an iPhone... most like 1/3 to 1/2 the price of the iPhone. Believe me, that phone just works.
Go away, Apple fan boy.
Yep. (Score:5, Insightful)
Count me in for four at least for my own house, and as many for gifts for Christmas.
I'm ot sure where you're going with that 1984 rhetoric though. This stuff works for us, it delivers modern innovation - and yet it lets us do with it what we will. That's not the same thing at all as the dystopian vision you portend.
Have you some credible source, some study or even some analyst to call dire outcomes? Surely you must. Your fear, show me it.
It's about the software (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually it's quite the opposite. Every device Google has had a personal hand in designing has been one perfect experience after the other. It is typically the handset manufacturers who are unable to code decent software, then the carriers who load the devices up with junk that ruin the experience.
I have an ancient phone, yet I run CM9 on it. It is far smoother than phones twice as expensive, rather new, and spouting features like dual core processors depending on who had a hand in making the software.
I for one am excited about what google can come up with in this partnership.
Re:Google is going for low price (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't want something that is seen by some as an essential fashion accessory. I would rather do without.
So, you're allowing your choice to be influenced by what others think of the brand. You might think that's anti-fashion, but actually, that's fashion.
I just to not want to be associated with that group that does.
You are following the fashion, every bit as much as punks who said their choice was about not wanting to be associated with glam rockers.
Your list is just a way of justifying the fashion choice you've made. Just as a punk might have listed everything they found wrong with glam rock.
Re:Google is going for low price (Score:2, Insightful)
As usual Dilbert has is right.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-02-23/ [dilbert.com]
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Re:Google is going for low price (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Google is going for low price (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyone who buys a tablet that needs to be jailbroken or rooted is a sucker. What's special about a tablet that makes people think its okay to own only 90% of what you paid for?
That people have to scour forums for how-to instructions and downloads to get really basic shit running on devices they *PAID* for is ridiculous, and watching people drool over the opportunity to do so is depressing. Idiocracy becoming reality right in front of us.
If you can't install *ANY* OS you want natively, don't buy it.
Fanboys and apologists please don't reply to my post, you're fucking up my world and I don't want to talk to you. People like you are why laptops are going to be next and then in a few years high quality, open computers of any form will be a thing of the past.