Unlike phones, tablets shouldn't need carrier approval—at least not to the same extent. Google should have an easier time selling tablets than the ill-fated Nexus One.
They have to walk a very fine line here though. If they push their own hardware too hard they risk driving the other vendors into the arms of Microsoft. If they're too timid then the current excesses of the vendors go unchecked.
Personally I think they're going to have to bite the bullet and become a real consumer electronics company but that's going to be a very painful transition.
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Unlike phones, tablets shouldn't need carrier approval—at least not to the same extent. Google should have an easier time selling tablets than the ill-fated Nexus One.
They have to walk a very fine line here though. If they push their own hardware too hard they risk driving the other vendors into the arms of Microsoft. If they're too timid then the current excesses of the vendors go unchecked.
Personally I think they're going to have to bite the bullet and become a real consumer electronics company but that's going to be a very painful transition.
Phones really shouldn't need carrier approval either, that's what standards like GSM and LTE are for, right?