Google Acquires ‘Kayak For Consumer Electronics’ Sparkbuy
Google still focuses on money. Such kind of website of course helps google to build it product search, online payment and related services. But you have to admit user experience is what google suck at. apple does It so well, and so remarkable. What's more important? I want google to more focus on user experience, because it's what apple best at, and until you improve it, you can't match with iphone. What I mean here is a more user friendly interface, easy to use, easy to understand, highly integrated. now you have ten methods to select texts in ten different apps, ten different logics in control ten apps, sometimes it've got menu, some haven't. this really is the main weakness.
Also, if I've been asked the future of android tablet, and android os, or even google. I'd say, not a chance to success in this year or next. because the using experience among different androids is so diverse, phone user experienced like me can't feel comfortable to use the tablet. not until the day google releases the coming version of android "ice cream sandwich" in coming December, which claims to bring phone and tablet experience together, if it does, then it has the chance to compete with ipad/iphone (their experience is homogeneous so users are happy to switch between pad and phone), but i am afraid not very likely to be happened consider googlers are all nerds and suck at user interface and experience. and if it's not too late, phone and tablet come together the app developers will build more higher quality apps for android which might takes a year or two, and then if not too late, it can compete with facebook, left customers to determine whether they want facebook or their phone to be the center of all information.