Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said Google will launch a tablet computer within the first six months of 2012. The Google tablet will run on the Android operating system (OS) and will aim to compete not just with the iPad but with other tablet computers built by Samsung and HP.
In an interview with an Italian newspaper, Schmidt praised Steve Jobs’ role in creating the iPad saying Jobs was “the Michelangelo of our time”.
Jobs, said Schmidt, was “a unique character, able to combine creativity and visionary genius with an extraordinary engineering ability”.
As Google finalises its purchase of Motorola Mobility, it is now entering into the hardware business, an area both alien and challenging for the search giant. Many observers believe Google’s attempt to build and sell a tablet is a high-risk strategy that will create tension with its best Android customers, specifically Samsung.
As Google attempts to become a hardware company, the tech world is already suggesting that its tablet computer must be revolutionary if it is to succeed. If this proposed tablet computer fails to challenge its established rivals, Google will suffer a high-profile failure. Not something it wants, but certainly something Apple would gloat over.

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