Xoom Sales and the iPad

April 20, 2011

“Digitimes: Meager Xoom Sales Shake Tablet Makers’ Faith in Honeycomb Share” presented some information with which I was not familiar. In the aftermath of Google’s reorganization and its quarterly results, I had ignored the Android based Xoom tablet. I looked at one and concluded that my first generation iPad was good for more book reading and Web content perusal. The iPad continues to work and has been hassle free for about a year. I wish I could say that about my BlackBerry and its weird software and ball thingy.

The nub of the story is:

…the Motorola Xoom — the first tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb — has been a bust, largely thanks to the simultaneous launch of the iPad 2. It is estimated that Motorola has sold less than 100,000 Xooms since the tablet was launched in February, compared to a million first-month sales of the first-gen iPad (and much higher if unreported unit sales of the iPad 2). Now, manufacturers preparing their own Honeycomb tablets are bracing for their own failures, with at least two upcoming tablets postponing their launch dates as their faith in Honeycomb as a viable platform upon which to mount a true iPad killer wanes.

I have no way of knowing if this report from Digitimes, a service I browse periodically is accurate. The fact that the story appeared is not enough to validate the information. Nevertheless, I find it interesting that Apple’s device which looks pretty simple appears to be a tough for the me-too crowd.

Will Google nuke the iPad? Great question. I would run a query on Google for the answer, but the relevancy is just not what it used to be. Me-too work can detract from the main event I assert.

Stephen E Arnold, April 20, 2011

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Google, Mobile, News, Search, Technology

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One Response to “Xoom Sales and the iPad”

Creative Designer on April 27th, 2011 12:58 am

I’m not so sure if there will be an iPad killer but I am looking forward to meet that. I know that Apple has a great range of products but it seems a bit overrated nowadays and very expensive and limited too.

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