Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching? I know I couldn't name one. There is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first.
Even if you don't count the above it's still the first Tablet worth a damn.
As for Google not following Apple... perception is everything. Consumers and really anyone following this epic battle will gloss over when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first, Google was second, just like the iPhone and Android (I believe the same argument can be made there too but no one really remembers or cares about that).
In search, Google was not first - yet most people use Google today. Gmail was not first - yet I'm sure it's got a decent slice of the market. Chrome was not first - yet it's been gaining steadily. In a few years nobody will care who was first, just who is current.
Could you really name a touch enabled Tablet to me without searching?
I don't know the name of it, but I know that everyone at my doctor's office has one.
is also that nifty little stat about Apple being the worlds largest Tablet seller after their first day, so when it really comes down to it, they are the first.
Huh? Being bigger than those preceding you makes you the first? What?
Apple when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first...
I guess you're really a fanboy and believe this. But for those of us who have been watching the computer industry, tablets have been around for quite some time. Microsoft had a version of XP -- a now-discontinued OS -- for them. If you Google for "tablet pc windows xp", the first link you come to -- at Microsoft -- is a page that says it's been retired. Apple has missed at least one whole product cycle already.
Not being able to name a previous tablet computer has more to do with their lack of the iPad's heavy marketing. I'd imagine most of us would have similar trouble naming desktop PCs for the same reason.
Maybe that's partly why Apple is having so much more success with their tablet: they're not trying to sell a virtually unknown type of product as a commodity.
Even if you don't count the above it's still the first Tablet worth a damn.
As for Google not following Apple... perception is everything. Consumers and really anyone following this epic battle will gloss over when someone tells them "well Google has been working on this for 2 years!" and simply remember that Apple did it first, Google was second, just like the iPhone and Android (I believe the same argument can be made there too but no one really remembers or cares about that).