Google looking to take a bite out of Apple’s iPad?

Posted by Reggie James | May 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Apple iPad, Google

So the tablet wars are intensifying. Years after Bill Gates held aloft the tablet PC – to the mania we now have with Apple’s iPad, the big search company over at Mountain View isn’t resting on it’s laurels.

There is no love lost with Apple and Google and it seems the tit-for-tat tech war rolls on. Google took on Apple with the development of it’s Android platform and Apple retaliated by enterening Google’s dominant space by joining the advertising market to sell ad-space on all it’s iPhone apple network – citing mobile as the next frontier in bothe search and ad platforms delivery.

Now Apple has iPad, a device that nobody really needed (remember Bill Gates at Comdex 6 years ago) and now everyone wants – mainly thanks to Apple leveraging it’s brand power with the iPhone. It seem s Google is looking to hit back. According to Wellington Financial, Google spent around $40 million buying BumpTop, a company that makes software that creates a ‘3D’ desktop – now let me guess what that could be for…?
Watch this space – in 3D if you can…

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