Rejoice, Android fans! Steve Jobs' best friend Eric Schmidt says that they are readying their own high-powered tablet to compete with the iPad 3. This Nexus tablet was rumored back in 2010, but he says it's now only six months away.

In an interview with Il Corriere della Sera, Schmidt declares that Google is preparing "a tablet of the highest quality" that will be in the market in six months, just in time to butt heads with Apple's next iPad revision. Presumably, this will be their tablet version of the Nexus, the crème de la crème of the Android tablets. He also says that we will see more "brutal competition between Apple and Google Android."

He also says that Steve Jobs was a "friend of mine" and a Michelangelo of our time.

Steve must be turning in his grave, and I don't blame him, but I love brutal competition. That's when we all win.

Google 的 Eric Schmidt 在采访中表示他们将在六个月内推出 Nexus 平板电脑，有望与下代 iPad（传闻二月底发布） 直接竞争。

据悉 Google 的平板电脑将很有可能采用 Nexus 品牌，该品牌作为他们的亲儿子向来对市场有指导性意义（#别的不说，至少系统升级及时）。Schmidt 强调他们的平板将会拥有最高的性能，所采用的系统也会是最新的。

Schmidt 同是称已故苹果创始人乔布斯是他的好朋友之一，并尊称他为当代的米开朗基罗。

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