Eric Schmidt: anti-iPad will arrive within 6 months
Eric Schmidt announced a new tablet of Google within 6 months, Google TV in Europe in the first half of 2012 and the first Google car within a decade.
In an extensive interview with Corriere della Sera, former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, has announced a revival of the tablet group in the world. This is because, if the iPad is a model, Android has ambitions and potential to do even better: “In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality. And in mobile communications, the smartphone market, you will see brutal competition between Apple and Google Android. It is capitalism.”
A new tablet within six months, in short, ready to overwhelm the game again to be able to slow down once and for all the iPad with a top range that can cloud the picture. An announcement and a promise, in short, in addition to a series of further clarification on what the group of Mountain View will lead the market in the near future.
Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs: old friends and former colleagues then divided by “capitalism” and by fate. Schmidt pays tribute to the Apple guru emphasizing the ability to see past (describing it as “the Michelangelo of our time”) and working a step ahead, drawing a road that now Google runs slavishly trying to market with their own eggs of the gold for the next explosion. But in an interview granted the BBC there is also much more, from Schmidt’s memories of Italy, where he lived during his childhood. The memory back to Bologna becomes nostalgic for the past and leads to a reflection on the role of technology in changing things:
Going back there, I find the atmosphere rather than 50 years ago and I saw all modernized. Repeaters, a perfect 3G signal. I left a little disappointed. But then, if you put aside the nostalgia, you realize that in an immutable Italy in its beauty and cultural riches, but in the chaos of Rome, or in its political theater, technology is the only true agent of change.
Schmidt also discusses the possibility that Google may launch anti-Syrians (already identified behind the name “Majel”): Schmidt recalls how Google already has the necessary technology and therefore could be considered in perspective of the opportunity to release something that go to directly challenge the Syrians in its field. Eventualities that seem to hide a sort of necessity: Google intends to stop the advance and to what Apple has a vested interest in putting its rival across the road. Syrians understood.
Schmidt also explains how the Google TV is destined to arrive in Europe in the first half of 2012 (hereinafter, however, bringing its failure experienced in the U.S.) and that the Google car that driving alone is something that can not reach the market before some years (possibly a decade) because many are still legal and technological challenges to be faced.
Android, incoming version 4.0.3 Nokia, no plan for the tablet