According to report published by NY Times Google is soon to launch it touch screen based Tablet PCs (iPad Killer) that will be Android based OS and will give tough competition to Apple's iPad and Amazon Kindle and moreover speculations are there if Google will launch it own tablet PCs it more likely that Google could wash away the market of tablet PCs and netbooks.
As per the hidden sources NY Times reports - "Google had been experimenting in 'stealth mode' with a few publishers to explore delivery of books, magazines and other content on a tablet".
Google with its products which already have largest user base to any other such product in the world such as Google Books (most important for tablets), Google reader, Google mail and the most importantly the search engine capabilities in all of its products makes it the right match to put on the peak of this market too.
Most importantly Google's approach in all of its inventions and discoveries is its open source development and being open to all the developers around the world to build, stretch and widen the capabilities unlike to Apple's proprietary based approach and close-development and same goes with Microsoft too which are not been open source.
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For eg.,http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/ , I see around 15 widely used/promoted products by google. I cant see atleast 1 thats developed by google from scratch and is open source.
Of the things that are open source in the above list, They are developed on top of existing open source things and they have a mandate have them as open source.
Am I missing some thing, Can you list a few googles inventions/discoveries that are open source ?
See -http://code.google.com/p/chromium/
Android - An Open Handset Alliance Project by Google
See -http://code.google.com/p/android/
Now as per wikipedia -
"Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology." - Wikipedia
Going with above definition Google do provide API's (meaning part of their code open for others) for its products - Google adsense, Youtube, Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Search API too ...
However am no way being argumentative here as an argument always interrupts a discussion ..