Verizon rumored to sell a 16 GB Motorola Xoom 4G LTE

Wow..If you do NOT use ITunes apple products are useless.
Not eveyone wants to sync a device to a computer. I have not found the need to plug a single cable into my Xoom other than a Power Cable. I find it Funny how all of these posts are about slamming anything but Ipad. If you are so certain it is the greatest thing on earth why get so worked up about it.? I just find it strange that all the posts for an article about Motorola Xoom are Ipad owners. I don't find myself searching out Ipad Articles to read and to post comments. Why...Because I own a Motorola Xoom.

Most consumers will quickly realize they can buy an ipad and a Verizon MiFi 4G thinger for exactly the same price even without a contract.

Moto should be able to sell tens of thousands of a Zoom if it's priced at $299 or below - otherwise, it's dead. Android + Moto 16 GB = equals $199 worth of technology to the consumer.

Here’s the problem in a nut:

When the iPad 1 outsold every Android tablet made combined by a factor of 10 or 20 or 50 or whatever, we were told “wait until Honeycomb and these faster sexier tablets with Flash and SD slots and all these ports. These consumers will come to their senses and come to the obvious conclusion that they need all this... stuff.”

Now that the iPad 2 is outselling every Android tablet made by a factor of 20 or 50 or 100 or whatever, after they’ve taken their best shot, with their dual-core Tegra whatevers with Flash and SD slots an 16:9 and Honeycomb and... consumers don’t care. They’ve intuitively figured out what Apple makes explicit in that “Technology is not enough” ad.

Interesting comments, particularly if you look at the history, say, of Windows vs MAC OSX, where Windows has been seen for years as unchallenged by other OS packages. A few years of Apple's persistence is now making MS scramble to achieve a quality level comparable to OSX.

I doubt Google is feeble enough to sit and be sub-standard (seemingly based on less-than smooth scrolling???). I think Apple knows it will need to hustle, so Xoom's presence, as well as others, is indeed very important for Apple fanboys, Android lovers, and those of us that like to use both.

Marketing is Apple's true genius, folks. Hardware superiority is fleeting, at best, and Android's growth is pretty solid evidence that Apple's feeling some healthy competition there, as well.

I have played with the Costco demo unit a few times, it's really heavy and feels totally awkward in your hand (and you just can't compare Android to iOS in user experience). I just don't see the Xoom coming even close to the iPad. I know too many people who want iPhones but are on the wrong carrier so they go Android. Same with people who want a Mac but are simply unable to afford anything more than 6 or 7 hundred bucks, so they buy a Dell. In the iPad VS competitor fight people want a tablet BECAUSE of the iPad, if they can afford the $500 base price for a Tablet, they are going to buy "the real thing" and get an iPad. This was the same story with iPods. People who couldn't afford an iPod bought a competitor (and hid it from their friends in shame). A few years later, Apple released cheaper iPods and those people ditched their MP3 players and bought iPod Mini and Nano models. iPad has the market cornered. People want a MacBook Pro, not an HP envy, people want an iPhone, not a MyTouch, people want an iPad, not a Xoom. At least that's what I'm hearing from friends and family. :)

"Just because it doesn't sell, doesn't mean it doesn't matter."


Wow- talk about denial. Actually, if it doesn't sell- it DOESN'T matter. LOL Mystic- your totally right. And 17AIA- Thank you. Johnny d. is confussed. Nothing compares to the smooth responsiveness of Springboard. Apple did it first. -And, Apple has done it best. Everyone else is just copying them. Motorola's device is pathetic. AND, for the price!? Come on. Seriously? Its not even in the ball park. Get with the program Johnny d. Its pretty funny when you see these Motorola tablets sitting out on display. It sits there like it doesn't exist. Nobody cares about it. iPad2? You still have a hard time finding it! Competitors dont even matter. LOL

I don't consider anything to even compete with the iPhone or iPad until IT SCROLLS SMOOTHLY!!! It's amazing how many people are fine with the stuttering and unresponsiveness of Android devices. Even if they finally figured the UI experience out, then there the other matters of battery life, screen quality, size, weight, etc. etc.

I'm all for competition, but I find the anti-apple zealots, who root for crap just because it's not apple, pathetic.

The Xoom, might have a chance at being number 2, tablet in the word if it makes the price comparable to the iPad 2, and make wifi only available. I seriously doubt that the Xoom would convert any Apple fanboys, but there is a market for those who haven't drank the Apple Koolaid.

Motorola who? What were those sales figures again?? iPad: 2.4+ MILLION. Xoom: 100,000 thousand. Ya. I don't see it ever being an issue of who does it better and what the public wants. Just give up Motorola- Apple has you beat. Hands down.