So, Motorola's Xoom is being renamed Doom before even leaving the gate. The tablet running Android 3.0 has been labeled over-priced for what you get, and I tend to agree with this. Also, there seem to be rumors running around that in order to enable wifi on the Xoom you'll have to pay for at least one month's worth of 3g data usage through Verizon.... What are they thinking???
Microsoft and Google seem determined to make up in quantity what they lack in quality when competing with Apple, and yet they continue to fail. They have a multitude of devices out there running their respective operating systems and yet Apple products are still the "must haves" of the industry.
I begin to wonder if Apple's closed ecosystem is really the way to go. Create a product, or even a line of products from the ground up, not just hardware, but software too, make it look stylish and throw it out on the market and watch it fly off the shelves. Oh, and it doesn't hurt if you can put a groovy picture of an Apple on it too.
Sometimes I get so disgusted with how HP, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, Sony, Acer and all the other manufacturers lag two to three years behind Apple in design that sometimes I just want to throw in the towel, replace my 4 notebooks with Macbooks, set up a NAS, and be done with Microsoft and the PC manufacturers for well and good.
I would be lying if I said I have never gone to Apple's website and perused a Macbook Pro or two, but usually once I get a look at the price, and the generally outdated hardware, I remember why I continue to buy PC's with Windows on them.
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