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The Xoom Effect
- Thread starter jimbo1mcm
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Imagine if Jobs said to himself one day: "Screw it. I'm just gonna go to town with the specs on this new(insert device of choice here)."
The competition would really be screwed then, lol.
If you are capable of building a hackintosh, I would think rooting your android phone and putting a ROM on it would be a simple process for you.
Or is the X the unrootable phone?
Droid X is one of the few Froyo-capable Android phones to have officially received a 2.2 update. Enjoy it..
Even though google is now on 2.3, only a few phones are even up to 2.2. Doesn't that tell you something about Android?
Has the Xoom been released yet? Oh... Does it have a release date? Oh... Has pricing been announced? Oh... Well, has the OS it will run been released yet? Oh... Has the OS version that it will run been even had an SDK released to developers yet so they can optimize their applications for it? Oh... But the release date for the SDK has been announced, right? Oh...
Who is blind then saying they are going to buy a Xoom without that basic information?
Right now I'd say it is it likely that the iPad2 is already ahead of the Xoom in product development timeline and could possibly ship before the Xoom. Apple just doesn't show devices early like others do, doesn't mean they aren't further ahead in their development.
I know what you are saying and agree it would be sensible to wait and see the real production device before deciding to buy one.
But also remember we have Apple fans now that have already sold their iPads, even though they didn't really want to, so they would have the most cash spare to buy the iPad2 and we know even less about that (we know nothing about it) than the Xoom which at least we have seen it and it's specs.
It would seem ever more crazy to sell a device you like to buy a device you don't even know the look or specs of yet.
I see your point but obviously the ipad 2 will be faster and better then the present iPad plus working off the same basic platform it should be practically bug free except for possibly the iOS will probably be a updated version of what ever iOS is runing on our iPads and iPhones on the date of iPad 2's release. Guess what I am trying to say is there will be very little risk jumping into the ipad2 blindly where the Xoom will be a brand new device with a brand new OS.
Nobody cares about specs besides a few geeks who don't spend enough money to make a difference to Apple. The iPad will rule the market because of the experience it offers based on iOS. No processor or number of cameras matters if the user experience is crap. That is what these other manufacturers don't get and is why they are getting wasted by Apple in the tablet market.
Enjoy that piece of crap with twelve cameras and futuristic processor from mars. It still sucks.
Enjoy that piece of crap with twelve cameras and futuristic processor from mars. It still sucks.
So would their profit margins, like most pc builders. They need to have the latest tech to sell at all, but need to price it low so people will buy.