Google's open-source Flash-supporting tablet to take on Apple's iPad

Ever since Eric Schmidt told the world at his private party that “of course, Google is working on a tablet”, speculation has run wild.
 
What is known about the device is that it will use a tablet-oriented Android OS, feature Chrome as a browser, have access to the Android Marketplace (one of the advantages of choosing the Android OS over the ChromeOS), and sport a multi-touch capacitive screen. Interestingly, it will support Adode Flash 10.1 – a turning point, not just as a key differentiator, but also as stimulus to a likely thriving Flash-based future of applications and the internet. Adobe downplayed this piece of good news.

While Flash and open-source might make the world of the Google tablet seem very different from the iPad’s, a most obvious similarity is that just as how the Apple’s mobile iPhone OS was adapted to work on the bigger iPad, Google’s open-source Android OS for its tablet. The company will apparently be working in “stealth mode” while experimenting with content publishers and the device. Read more...