Stumbling Towards The Future: The PC-ification of Android Tablets

Did you hear that Lenovo is releasing a 10.1-inch tablet powered by a quad-core Tegra 3 CPU? Exciting news, I know: quad-core on a tablet is huge.But is it really? Do we really have to be doing this? Is this what the struggling tablet market needs: a spec war? But what’s a tablet maker to do? Much like Microsoft fifteen years ago Google has more control over tablets than the actual tablet-maker. The OEMs are just working within Android’s confines, try desperately to wring more performance and marketing credibility out of the platform by throwing hardware at the problem.

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