... apple opened the floodgates... before the iPad, HP wanted to build a slate... the concept waz terrible... after apple haz shown the UI... now look on every iPad like device now... and because it is android based, google knows, what you want or miss in the iPad... enables the functionality... and the makers implement them... google don't need to innovate now... they just wait, until the next best thing comes out of apple... then see the search results about, what is missing... and after, they give a version of iPhone and iPad... before the iPhone, google was represented in apple's director board... food for thought...