Tuesday, December 20, 2011
In an echo of the firm’s smartphone strategy, whereby its own Nexus range forms the vanguard of the Android attack on the iPhone, Mr Schmidt said Google is developing a tablet.
“In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality,” he told an Italian newspaper.
Google has already had a hand in the development of the Motorola Xoom, but like other Android tablets, it suffered disappointing sales in a market dominated by the iPad.
Since then, however, Google has itself become a major hardware manufacturer via its $12.5bn acquisition Motorola’s devices division, which is currently under consideration by competition authorities. The deal would give it much more control over Android tablet development.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire, based on Android, has presented the strongest challenge to Apple so far, mostly based on its relatively low price, but it has faced criticism over the usability of its software.
By: DocMemory
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