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Meanwhile, rumors swirl that Apple<\/a> is planning something involving a black turtleneck and “one more thing” on Jan. 26 [13]. Then again, maybe the company is finally bringing the Beatles to iTunes<\/a>. Or maybe Steve Jobs<\/a> will announce he’s had the rest of his internal organs<\/a> replaced with cybernetic equivalents [14]. Still, a lot of Apple fanboys are hoping their dreams of an Apple Tablet will finally bear fruit.
\nThe most interesting part of all of this — again if those persistent Web rumors are to be believed [15] — is that Google<\/a> plans to offer an unlocked, unsubsidized version of the Nexus One<\/a> (or whatever it’s called) to consumers. In other words, Google may be entering the consumer hardware biz, thus competing directly with Apple.
\nIn other words, forget Microsoft<\/a>, Yahoo<\/a>, or MicroHoo [16]. The battle for world domination will boil down to Apple vs. Google — with a few minor players like Amazon in there to raise the ante.<\/strong>
\nOh they won’t be alone. Like a wildebeest at a watering hole, Microsoft will eventually stick its nose in the air<\/strong>, catch a whiff of what Apple and Google are doing, and strong-arm its hardware partners into producing their own Windows Live Tablets — two years late and burdened by a slow, complex-yet-condescending interface. Sony<\/a> will quietly release a product that does almost everything people want, price it too high, market it poorly, and totally fail. A few minor players will jump in, and eventually tablets will become a commodity like everything else eventually does.<\/strong>
\nThe real innovation, though, will come from a no-holds-barred catfight between the Googlers of Mountain View<\/a> and the Appletons of Cupertino. That ought to be fun to watch.
\nWill all this really come to pass? We&apos;ll know in just a few weeks. Probably.
\nvia Google takes on Apple<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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