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Nexus One may seem like me-too, just like the iSlate will be called tablet take two. But in fact we’re seeing voice replace the keyboard on the phone, which in turn creates a vacuum on the desk/laptop for the iScreen to fill.
How is Apple going to compete against crowd sourced voice recognition by Google (via Goog-411)? If Google can get really good at this, it will be a new way of interfacing with these devices. How will others (Apple, Blackberry, Palm, etc.) be able to compete? The only other company that could possibly have a chance would be microsoft, via there huge data centers...