Search Engine giant Google is planning to open their own online store to sell tablet PCs directly to the customers, as per the report in The Wall Street Journal. Online store will offer tablets that are made by Samsung and Asus which have google own mobile operating system the Android based on the report which cited anonymous sources and which Reuters was not able to confirm and Google declined to comment.
Google sold a specially-designed Android smartphone the "Google Nexus One" directly to consumers in the year 2010, but closed the store after four months saying that it not lived to the expectations. Google now realised on retail and the carrier partners to sell out Android smartphones made by a variety of handset makers in the market & Android has become the world's No.1 smartphone operating system, ahead of iPhone from Apple.
But here the Apple still dominates the market for touch-screen tablet PC's with its two-year old iPad. And also the Amazon.com's $199 Kindle Fire tablet is based on open-source Android computer code, but the device has a customised interface that not use many Google services. According to a Journal report, Google may co-brand some of the tablets sold through the store and has considered subsidising the cost of future tablets to make them more competitive with the Kindle Fire. It is unclear when Google plans to open the store.
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