The Google Tablet?

Your link is broken.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/01...tablet-photos/

Also, this article covers it a bit better;
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20...dStoriesArea.1

I also like the fact that the Google designers are taking into account the different modes of windowing based on form factor, specially with providing a solution for non-phone (sized) devices. So Android covers small mobile, and ChromeOS tablets and up that have much larger screens.



Funny than in the other link people already started saying Google is copying Apple, when in fact these designs pre-date the iPad public announcement.

Where's the camera?

Yeah. Tables are very much not new.

Just as mp3 players were not new when ipods started coming out.

If there’s one thing Apple does, and does well, it’s show off actual products they plan on selling, rather than conceptual demos of what may, or may not, be something coming down the pike in the distant future. I’ve read the article, and have a somewhat rudimentary understanding of what Chrome OS is (a web based OS that appears to be more along the lines of WebOS than, say, Android), but without seeing the actual product, it’s difficult to make any sort of determination.

ChromeOS is very real, you can actually try early versions of it.

Yes this is a conceptual design, I guess I like the fact that it is public and not secretive. But I guess some people like to not see this information until it's ready for it to be sold to them?

Note that this is for UI and the range of devices they plan to support, it is not a concept for an actual tablet. Like with Android, I think Google is focusing more on the software and getting that right and letting others handle the hardware for now (which I think is a good approach).

I sort of like that Google's entry into the phone business has finally blown away all doubts that the Steve Jobs of 1980 and 2010 are very much same person. He really pushed that narrative that the fallout he had with his family and Apple changed him radically for the better. Even the television movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley bought into that narrative. But, no, he's just got much, much better at PR.

It's because Apple doesn't do shit like this that makes them so successful and special. I don't need to see every dreamy-eyed mockup of what a perfect scenario device will be from R&D. Show me shit that works.

http://gizmodo.com/5451242/show-and-...=Google+Reader

That's alright, because Apple fanboys will sling all the R&D crap onto their tech blogs. Effectively doing Apple's PR pre-release for them.

*furiously masturbates to a new multi-touch gesture patent leak*

The sentiment above and the horrible article linked to, are a sad comment on how some of our corporations have managed to create a corporate "fan base" that fools people into applauding sharing less information, be against community and open projects (ex: open source) and praise more restrictions on technology.

The Chrome OS table UI design is not a "dreamy-eyed" marketing mockup from "R&D". Please inform yourself. The Chromium Project is an open source project, and as such conceptual designs have to be shared with the community. What do you suggest they do, send the designs secretly, so it won't offend your sensibilities?

The idea is to explore the possibilities and get feedback on the UI, gestures and new other usability concepts.

http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/...factors/tablet

The page clearly states "This is a concept UI under development. Designs are subject to change"

I think it is great that such things exist, just like they do for other open source projects like Firefox;

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Pro...n_and_Feedback

Note that this design just places the direction of the UI in the context of a theoretical piece of hardware. The Chromium project has nothing to do with the hardware, so it's not a mock-up of what an actual Chromium OS tablet would look like.

Also the fact that the article praises software patents like they're a great thing for consumers (Apple patents instead of create prototypes!) is so bizarre. Consumers don't win when things like UI gestures are patented. Imagine if somebody had patented the right click mouse button, or the concept of windowed interfaces.