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A Google Nexus tablet? Bad news for Android partners

Tablets, even tweener ones like the Galaxy Note, could face pressure if Google gets into the business itself.
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)
The worst thing Google could do to its budding Android tablet business is get into it.
But that appears to be what the Internet search titan is up to. The latest report from Digitimeshas Google partnering with Asus to create a low-cost tablet to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire.
If Google wanted to assuage its Android partners that it isn't interested in competing against them, the company is going about it completely wrong. Android tablets haven't exactly been blockbusters like Apple's iPad, but device makers have begun to make some slight progress in the area. Google getting into the business with its own so-called Nexus tablet may spark some interest in the area, but it'll come at the cost of sales to its Android partners.

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