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Re:Google Shows Off its Tablet Concept by mrshoe on Monday February 01, 2010 @10:12PM (#1094176)
Ugh. The keyboard and popover menus in those pictures look like direct rips of Apple's tablet (http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-fac...). That Google would "show off" these concepts is a bit embarrassing, and telling.

An Apple designer wouldn't even show their manager concept drawings this rudimentary, especially if they were nothing more than copies of a competing product released the week before.

I really hope this isn't Google's doing. But if they are working on a tablet version of Chrome OS, they should probably keep the lid on it until it's had more than 2 hours of mockup work.

Re:Google Shows Off its Tablet Concept by jtaylor on Monday February 01, 2010 @10:43PM (#1094236)
The dates on the site say this was posted before Apple's announcement, though dates can obviously be munged.
Re:Google Shows Off its Tablet Concept by thwarted on Monday February 01, 2010 @10:31PM (#1094205)
On-screen keyboards and context menus have significant prior art.
Re:Google Shows Off its Tablet Concept by Confusion on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @01:25AM (#1094455)
The keyboard and popover menus in those pictures look like direct rips of Apple's tablet

It is a pretty obvious choice to do it that way. Saying it's a rip off of Apple's tablet is like saying every car 'rips off' a carriage. The same thing will usually be invented multiple times you know.