Thread: why would anyone want Android OS on a tablet?
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Old 12-20-2013, 03:08 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
Quite a step in that direction, yes, as is the iPad, and most Android tablets, really.

But I was thinking more along the lines of the computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Ask it how to bake a cake, and a holographic Julia Child appears to give you a cooking lesson. THAT will be the commuting appliance.
We're getting there. That's pretty much the way Google Now is heading. Albeit without the holograms, yet.

I just asked my Android phone (out loud) "How do I bake a cake?". The fourth result in the list was a 17 minute video:



I just tried it on the Chromebook. The voice search gave the same results there.

Edit: I tried again with "Show me how to bake a cake" and got videos as the first results.

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