Why a Google fan boy bought an iPad

I love Google. I was not, however, an early adopter. In the late 90s people were beginning to allaud the wonders of google search, but I was using Dogpile. Dogpile is a still active search engine which complies the results of various other search engines. The first regular email account I had was with Hotmail which I used faithfully until 2010.

In late Spring of 2010 I was in the market for a second job and thanks to my best friend Michael White I was able to land a job working as at a Verizon Wireless retail location. The company's policy stated that you had to have a Gmail account. After a bit of research I officially made the switch. Soon after working at Verizon I made the switch to an Android smartphone and a Google fan boy was born.

Today I use Google for just about anything online: email, search, web browser, cloud storage, rss feeder, blogging, videos, music, maps, calendar, photos, e-books, and more. I love Google. I enjoy how my experience is synced to any web connected device and that is one reason I bought an iPad.

I once read that Google has a commitment to bring you all their services to all your devices. Along with Google other companies can use their syncing capabilities to bring you your Google content with their vey own user interface. Therefore, though Google doesn't have their Reader or Calendar apps available on iPad I have found two great apps that user my Google account information to bring me that content. Google already offers great iPad apps for search, email, blogging, and more.

Tablet specific apps, however, are the main reason I chose the iPad. Apple offers 275,000 iPad specific apps. Google doesn't release their number. When you search for an app on an Android tablet they don't even separate your results by phone and tablet apps. Also, it made news recently when Google was asking developers to develop more tablet apps. The reason that they don't have tablet apps is two fold: 1. Apple continues to be a more profitable platform for developers. 2. They haven't had a very significant Marketshare of the tablet market.

I believe the second of these is going to change with the recent release of the Nexus devices. I imagine Google will have a comparable tablet app experience in as a little as 18 months. But until then when it comes to a great tablet experience, iPad reigns supreme.