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Jun242011
SourceCode: The Tablet Situation, A Mid-year Report
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 10:55AM 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
2011, the proclaimed "Year of the Tablet," has reached the halfway point.
We now have something resembling a very young marketplace for tablets other than Apple's iPad. Most of the new models have bet the farm on Google's Android OS and hope it will succeed as wildly and as quickly on the tablet space as it did in smartphones.
Braver manufacturers like RIM and HP are pushing their own hardware and software platforms hoping that customers who want 'something different', might subscribe to their approach and buy their products.