Since unveiling the iPad, Apple has always referred to its dominating tablet device as “magical.” Now supporters of Google’s Android operating system hope to borrow the phrase to tout a rival tablet from the men and women of Mountain View, Calif.
“They’re building a magical product,” Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told financial analysts during a call to report his company’s third-quarter numbers. “I think its going to really, really surprise people and delight consumers everywhere,” he said of the Android-based phones and tablets Google is developing.
The head of Nvidia, while positively gushing about the possibilities of Android, must walk a bit of a verbal tightrope, knowing Apple is a big customer of the company’s graphic processors. Hence, the CEO refers to the iPad and iPhone as “quite amazing devices” requiring something “truly remarkable to compete against it.”
“You can’t just put an operating system on a tablet and hope that — on a piece of glass and hope that you’re going to compete against the iPad,” Jen-Hsun Huang says.
Still, Google engineers “are going to absolutely deliver,” the chipmaker promised.
That prediction could be shared by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Munster, a big fan of tablets as the future of computing, sees Google will ultimately win the war over tablet, domination. However, others feel Apple will still maintain the lead in the United States.
