Quoting Freescale Semiconductor's director of global consumer segment marketing Gary Burchers, Forbes says that some tablets, netbooks and smartbooks designed to compete with Apple's iPad and originally due out in time for the holidays have been pushed into early next year around the time of the Consumer Electronics Show in January because they weren't competitive enough. iPad's got a lower price, longer battery life and smoother performance than they counted on. There's reportedly too many operating systems for them to chose from including Android, Chrome, MeeGo.