The short answer is yes -and quite easily so. Unlike the struggle that is happening between the Apple iPhone and the Android smart phones, the tablet industry is much more flexible at this point. While Apple seems to have a monopoly on the industry with the early US launch of the iPad they are far from being set in stone as the industry standard –right now, the iPad is not the face of tablet devices, it is simply enjoying being the first to take a dip in the pool.
The upcoming Google tablet however seems fully ready to make a splash.
Thanks to the team up between Google and Adobe, it appears that the upcoming Android tablet will have the one big feature that is not present in Apple’s devices (and never will): Flash support. With all the troubles between Apple and Adobe, the Flash company has decided to throw in the towel and give up on being supported by Apple’s devices.
This will then leave Google with a device that supports both HTML5 and Flash content, while Apple has been stuck only with HTML5 –making it the least backwards compatible device on the market. While many may argue that being future-proof is the most important factor, that is far from the truth of the millions of people who play and use Flash based web content every day.
Of course, there is much more to the Android tablet than just being able to run Flash. As stated, it will also be able to handle HTML5 content and almost all the features of the iPad (except run Apple apps of course). The Android device is expected to have its own set of apps from the Android Market as well as a large set of extra Google based features such as Maps, Goggles and others.
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