So Google has brought the spec war to tablets now...

[bigkevbosky]

Let me start by saying I own an iPad 2 so I don't really have a dog in this fight...

While reading all the reactions to the Nexus 7, I realized that now the "spec war" has spilled into tablets. People are saying "for the money, these specs blow the Kindle Fire out of the water!" and, in a way, they're right. But tablets, like phones, aren't solely about specs, they're also about UI and ecosystem.

Its just funny that, for a while, tablets weren't as caught up in the "dual core vs quad core vs 2 gb of ram vs blah blah blah" crap we've seen in smartphones, and now in one product release, Google has pushed that forward.

I guess if you have crappy software you're going to try to win on hardware.

 

[thed]

It's kind of funny, it seems like this is designed to compete with the Kindle Fire. But what they really should be competing with is the iPad. I often have trouble trying to figure out what Google's strategy is with a lot of their products.

And if they were actually trying to use this to compete with the iPad, well then it's time to go back to the drawing board.