Sony wants to have an iPad counterpart, according to a company’s CFO Nobuyuki Oneda. Vocalization at a press discussion in Tokyo, Oneda said of the iPad “That is a market you have been additionally very interested in. We have been assured you have a skills to emanate the product.”

It’s positively no surprise that Apple’s long-expected proclamation last week would coax a slew of copycat designs — one of the trends during this year’s CES, that came *before* a iPad eventuality, there we re copiousness of iSlate announcements, particularly from Dell as well as also Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Good theory upon a name by a approach, guys).

Sony is one of a companies which could pull it off, too, with expertise in creation well-built, little as well as great-looking hardware, nonetheless it will be playing catchup, as Oneda adds “Time-wise you are the small behind a iPad though it’s a space you would similarto to be an active player in.”

A problem is a OS in general, and a app store in particular. Sony’s devise is to discharge content from an online store which will work with this inscription device as well as the PCs, TVs as well as Walkmans. Though you think that a thing that has kept a inscription in Apple’s tip laboratories for so prolonged isn’t the hardware (it is, after all, small some-more than the shade, or even the availability of content, though a software. Privately, an OS designed to be giveaway of a complexity of a complicated Mac or PC, to do just one thing during a time and to be very easy to use.

If this sounds similart o something which might take some-more than the couple of months to have, it is. That’s because we expect a upcoming tidal wave of tablets to be little more than multi-touch PCs with a jazzed up interface. In short, they’ll be the lot like the hulk Nexus phone.

Sony interested in challenging Apple’s iPad [Computerworld/IDG]

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

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