In a news story that’s, frankly, surprising no-one, Mobile Today is reporting that Google Android may well be coming to a laptop near you, very soon. More specifically, we may well be seeing it enter the so-called netbook market, currently dominated by the likes of the Asus Eee PC (or Eeeeeee-by-gum PC, as I call it), the Acer Aspire series, and the Dell Inspiron Mini 9.
So, as well as seeing it soon on the HTC Magic, and upcoming phones from LG and Samsung, it seems more than likely that it’ll be wending its merry way over to lickle mini laptops (or laptots, as I’ve seen various commenters call them) in the not too distant future.
But then, a lot of people (most notably, to me anyway, my very good friend and personal IT guru, codenamed “Bulldog, guard-hound of the interkennel”) are speculating whether that was the plan all along…
Think about it, who’s Google’s arch-nemesis? Well, granted, they probably have more than one, but right up there on that list has got to be the gang from Redmond… Microsoft… who just so happen to still control the lion’s share of the PC market, despite inroads made by Linux and Apple’s OSX.
So, could it be possible that Google only really got into the mobile market in order to give Android a stronger foundation, before they moved it to the PC world, and took the fight to Microsoft? Well, probably not, since they’d probably want to milk the mobile market for all it’s worth, as well (and yes, it’s growing in worth every, single day), but one can’t help but speculate that their long-term goal was getting it on phones and PCs, in order to firmly smack Microsoft in the gob.
Of course, since netbook-y type laptops and smartphones aren’t a million miles away from each other, one could also speculate that Android getting involved could lead to even more convergence, with an uber-device that is both a smartphone and a laptop…
Time will tell…
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