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Motorola Xoom Tablet Sales: Approximately 100,000 Units So Far?
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I for one constantly hate the upgrading and compatibility issues between devices. I especially hate how some devices work with certain hardware. I wish we could all agree on one tablet and move forward. That tablet being iPad. Death to Zoom.
Exactly. When will people realize that Apple competes with itself. The only thing that "competitive pressure" puts on Apple is to make their prices cheaper, but as far as the product goes, Apple is competing with itself and the "competition" is simply playing catch up in terms of the product.
Apple sure hasn't sat on their ass in the music space, where they face no real competition. Apple invented the iPhone with literally no competition. Two years later competitors slowly emerged. Apple invented the iPad with literally no competition, one year later competitors slowly emerge.
Apple doesn't need competitors to keep making great products, they simply need Steve to continue desiring killer products for himself to own. Although competition does benefit us when it comes to pricing, and also benefits Apple when it comes to antitrust allegations
. Without Android, Apple would probably be facing similar antitrust issues Microsoft had.
I agree. Everyone is wasting their time trying to beat Apple at tables, music players, and smartphones. They are failing hilariously
I want to see Apple take down Google
Exactly. When will people realize that Apple competes with itself. The only thing that "competitive pressure" puts on Apple is to make their prices cheaper, but as far as the product goes, Apple is competing with itself and the "competition" is simply playing catch up in terms of the product.
Apple sure hasn't sat on their **** in the music space, where they face no real competition. Apple invented the iPhone with literally no competition. Two years later competitors slowly emerged. Apple invented the iPad with literally no competition, one year later competitors slowly emerge.
Apple doesn't need competitors to keep making great products, they simply need Steve to continue desiring killer products for himself to own. Although competition does benefit us when it comes to pricing, and also benefits Apple when it comes to antitrust allegations
I agree that Apple doesn't need competition, but when they released the iPhone, they had to compete a lot with Palm and Blackberry. The iPod also had competition from Sony. The iPad had no competition. The Mac has a LOT of competition from MS and their "team" (Dell, HP, Acer, etc).
Some companies post number of shipped devices (the Samsung Tab is an example) not sold to consumer devices. That's a big difference.
Honda sells a TON more cars than BMW by a huge factor...I'd rather drive a BMW, I guess you're all happy with the Hondas
LOL are you for real? This is the worst quote ever.
Honda is cheap, so ipad is cheap???????? lol
Please don't troll like that.
you can't compare apple and oranges.
If you like a product, then good, don't go saying the other is cheap/suck/oh-everyone-is-jumping-to-the-bandwagon or whatever...........
LMAO
Someone is really out of touch with the truth.
Samsung can't even declare the 2 million they shipped were sold. The reports are that customers were also very dissatisfied with the galaxy tab.
You have already lost. Seriously, what are you even doing? Spend some money more wisely.
Funny, I started playing SNES and other emulated games on iOS* around March, 2008. But, I'm sure you know more about it than I.
* was not called iOS at that time
The xoom is that disappointing gift a kid gets under the yule tree from someone who doesn't quite get it.
"What's this?"
"An ipad"
"But this is a motorola tablet."
"Yes they make them too."
"Thanks Grandma"
Lets hope this little trial ballon called the xoom tablet pops before the solstice rolls around.
"What's this?"
"An ipad"
"But this is a motorola tablet."
"Yes they make them too."
"Thanks Grandma"
Lets hope this little trial ballon called the xoom tablet pops before the solstice rolls around.
I agree. Everyone is wasting their time trying to beat Apple at tables, music players, and smartphones. They are failing hilariously
I want to see Apple take down Google
Ha, ha...
I tried the Galaxy Tab today at BB - the website I visited it with only showed the left frame (which was the site's nav links) - the rest of the webpage was missing (looks fine on my iPhone)...
http://www.amazon.com/MOTOROLA-XOOM-Android-Tablet-Wi-Fi/dp/B0045FM6SU/
$589 shipped.
wtf are you smoking?
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The Dell Adamo was sold really cheap, that is at prices that made it reasonable to consider buying it instead of a MacBook Air, just before Dell stopped selling it. Quite possible that Motorola is reducing prices - selling a Xoom with no profit at all may be better than not selling them at a price that would bring in some money.
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There is of course the problem that items shipped to store do not equal items sold to end users, but the article makes some bizarre mistake in the iPad sales calculations. Basically, they say (correctly) that not all iPads shipped to stores in that quarter are sold to end users in the quarter. But they forget completely that the same thing happened in the quarter before, and all the iPads shipped but not sold in the quarter before are getting sold this quarter.
Basically, they say iPads sold to customers = items sold to the channel, minus channel inventory. That's wrong. It should be items sold to the channel, minus increase of channel inventory.
What can I say... Apple's domination here is well-deserved.
No competitor has caught end-user attention like the iPad because they haven't been good enough to do so. Android may have matured enough both in OS, the ecosystem, and how Google even intend to run things (open? closed? they seem to be a bit undecided at the moment after closing down Android 3 "for the foreseeable future") in a year or so.
It doesn't exactly help platform popularity and OEM's investing time and money in the platform when the company running the show aren't sure how to run the show.
No competitor has caught end-user attention like the iPad because they haven't been good enough to do so. Android may have matured enough both in OS, the ecosystem, and how Google even intend to run things (open? closed? they seem to be a bit undecided at the moment after closing down Android 3 "for the foreseeable future") in a year or so.
It doesn't exactly help platform popularity and OEM's investing time and money in the platform when the company running the show aren't sure how to run the show.
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The bulk of posts on this thread are from fanboys trying to discredit the xoom.
What are you people so afraid of?
Nobody's making you go out and buy a xoom.
The rest of us look forward to a market that will offer a greater amount of choice and some very capable tablets that will give us more than what the ipad has.
Don't be afraid. It will only help you too, since apple will be forced to compete and offer better capabilities on its own tablet as well.
I imagine that by the ipad 3 or 4, they will also offer better connectivity, better multi tasking and file management and prices will go down.
And if you keep trying to equate sales with superior quality, then it's obvious that Windows is the best OS on the planet by far.
What are you people so afraid of?
Nobody's making you go out and buy a xoom.
The rest of us look forward to a market that will offer a greater amount of choice and some very capable tablets that will give us more than what the ipad has.
Don't be afraid. It will only help you too, since apple will be forced to compete and offer better capabilities on its own tablet as well.
I imagine that by the ipad 3 or 4, they will also offer better connectivity, better multi tasking and file management and prices will go down.
And if you keep trying to equate sales with superior quality, then it's obvious that Windows is the best OS on the planet by far.
And iOS has the iPod touch and the Apple TV. Every figure I've ever seen has iOS handily in the lead over Android in total devices. Do you have any figures to back up your statement? And the reason Android is used on so many different devices is because it's free. Nothing about it's quality or "versatility".
It's been the single highest selling smartphone since it was released, 4 years ago. That's an eternity for a handset. And if you don't think the iPhone 5 will sell huge amounts, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like you to consider purchasing.
lol. if you really owned iPad 1 AND iPad 2 you wouldn't be here talking about the Xoom. you'd be talking about how awesome the iPad is. the reason your on here hollering about that Xoom is bc you own that trinket but feel you have to go out of your way to convince us you can't be wrong bc you own the rival product. I'd tell you to post a picture to prove you own an iPad and a Xoom but again I believe you own a Xoom and let's be honest theres plenty of people to find to let you take a picture with there iPads bc everyone is buying them. If I'm wrong then that's unfortunate bc you recommend Xoom tablet so I know I can't trust a word you say.