PC-centric friend and I decide to go to Best Buy to check out the Xoom. First warning sign, there isn’t one on dispay. Blue shirt approaches and asks if we could use help. Friend says we are looking for a Xoom.
“We have one over here to demo.”
“Do you have any for sale?”
“No.”
Friend looks smug. “So you sold out?”
“No, we only received three. One for display, two for sale.”
“You sold the other two already?”
“Yes, but one came back.”
“Why?”
“Didn’t play Flash. The guy says he’ll be back on Friday to pick up the new iPad. Says, if it doesn’t play Flash, he might as well get one that has apps and costs less.”
“Can I buy the one that came back?”
“The guy tried to download several droid apps and the computer is hopelessly locked up. We have to wipe it and reinstall the OS, but we haven’t received clear instructions on how to do that.”
After a few more minutes of the Xoom reputation sinking lower and lower into the muck, my friend decided it was time to leave.
“We can go look at the iPad 2 on Saturday, if you want.”
All I received as an answer was a look that could kill...
I hear that the Droid OS was written by a team headed up by Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin.