iPad Killer from Google?

Apple, though it didn't invent the Slate, has created a market for the Slates with its iPad. The sales estimates are 50 million iPads by 2013. Now everyone in the IT industry want a piece of this pie and it is not surprising to see Google in this game which has put its hand in anything and everything in technology.

Google is planning to introduce it own Slate with its most successful Android OS. Android has already been acclaimed for its features and is starting to gain preference from users over the iPhone. It can multi-task unlike the iPhone and is an open source Operating System therefore has more flexibility  in terms of Application development. This makes the availability of more 3rd Party Applications for Android in the market. 

It also supports Flash and Java which is the platform formost of the Applications for the Web and the Smartphones. Google, which is already associated with Amazon, can also provide a wide range of Books and ebook formats to the Users than what iPad can give its Users today. This kind of a flexibility and options are not available on the iPad and that is an opportunity for Google to gain the Market.

On the other hand, other competitors for Apple like HP, Toshiba are preparing their Slates with Microsoft's Windows 7 on them. A tech review site has already reviewed HP's Slate with a leaked piece and the result is not a happy news for Microsoft or HP. Though the HP's new iPad alternate have device and application flexibility, it could not perform task quicker than iPad and the battery life is only half of iPad's.

The reason behind this is that iPad uses its proprietary iPhone OS which Apple had refined with its iPhone. Another reason why iPad is successful is it works more like a smartphone than a computer. And this is known to be the reason to why Google has now planned to design its own Slate around Android, a smartphone OS than it Chrome OS.

With its support to Opensource, Flash and Java, Google's slate would be a delight to the Users and Adobe. Apple has banned applications that use flash from its iPad App store citing security issues. Even flash contents  on the websites are not displayed on this new device from Apple. While all this is happening between Apple and Adobe, it is the Users who are affected who unable to the view content on the web and use some wonderful applications that are available that are available online.

So Google's Slate with its Android has all the possibilities of capturing the market that Apple had generated, provided Apple does not change its approach with its openness towards the Users and its applications. Either way that is a good news for the Users. Isn't it?

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