As Ashlee Vance and I report in a Monday article, Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Microsoft and a suite of other companies are hard at work on products that they hope will be iPad killers.
Apple will most likely swat at most of these companies like a short-tempered old man whacking mosquitoes on a hot summer night. But when it comes to Google’s coming slate computer, it might take more than a swat.
As we reported in the story:
Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive of Google, told friends at a recent party in Los Angeles about the new device, which would exclusively run the Android operating system. People with direct knowledge of the project — who did not want to be named because they said they were unauthorized to speak publicly about the device — said the company had been experimenting in “stealth mode” with a few publishers to explore delivery of books, magazines and other content on a tablet.
Mr. Schmidt didn’t stop there. He acknowledged that “Google might not get it right the first time,” and said that Apple probably wouldn’t either, briefly alluding to some better features coming with the second generation of the iPad. But he said both companies would have “the next two to three years to figure it out.”
According to a guest at the party, Mr. Schmidt offered one other piece of information: the Google device will run Adobe Flash content and games.
This is good news for Adobe, but not for Apple.
Apple dealt a major blow to Adobe last week when it refused to allow iPhone applications into its App Store that were built with Adobe software tools.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/a-google-tablet-could-be-good-news-for-adobe/?scp=5&sq=web%20news&st=cse
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