[WayneS]

The "iPad 2" isn't going to cost me a damned thing.

[PanzerKardinal]

Like people are rational when buying stuff?

If that were true, I’d be driven a Kia and only wear denim overalls.

It’s not about rational. It’s about desire.

And that’s why Apple iWhatevers sells...people desire them.

[steve86]

mere 16 Gigabytes of memory

My kick-around laptop has a mere 192k and does Flash (Linux, of course). What, 1/90 of that?

My how bloated we've become.

[battousai]

Motorola, for reasons best known to itself, has managed to bobble the new product launch. Folks buying a Xoom today will have to wait for updates from Motorola before they can use micro-SD cards or watch web videos using Flash. It’s errors like this that keep Apple on a roll.

This has been part of the problem, competitors being their own worst enemies, hopefully these are ironed out by the time the quad core Xooms are out in August or so. I intend to skip the iPad2 and go strait to the quad Xoom, my current iPad 3G is just fine no need for the iPad 2 in between.

[battousai]

Motorola, for reasons best known to itself, has managed to bobble the new product launch. Folks buying a Xoom today will have to wait for updates from Motorola before they can use micro-SD cards or watch web videos using Flash. It’s errors like this that keep Apple on a roll.

This has been part of the problem, competitors being their own worst enemies, hopefully these are ironed out by the time the quad core Xooms are out in August or so. I intend to skip the iPad2 and go strait to the quad Xoom, my current iPad 3G is just fine no need for the iPad 2 in between.

[battousai]

Doh sorry for the repost, it got stuck so wasn’t sure I had hit post the first time ><

[antiRepublicrat]

Would be nice to be able to get a subsidized iPad. But I do have a couple of comments:

why isn't this tablet 4G?

Because 4G exists nowhere in this country, and the 3.5G they're passing off as 4G only exists in limited areas. Apple generally doesn't go with something until it's widely available, as they did with 3G in the first place.

the Xoom is heavier, but it has a better screen

No, it has a higher-resolution, but lower-quality screen.

It will run Flash, which means you can pretty much watch Web video as you do on your laptop or PC.

You can do that on an iPad too, since YouTube and others have been transcoding away from Flash to H.264 for a while.

If you have serious competition, that’s going to compress profit margins.

That's what I'm hoping for. I thought Xoom would come out better than it did. Here's to hoping Xoom 2 will be serious iPad competition.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.

[Swordmaker]

Talk about lying... and FUD.. PING!

Actual cost of ownership of the Xoom with Verizon plan after subsidy on contract at

• $20 (plus $6 to $8 for fees and taxes *) for 1GB data plan is $1079 minimum
• $35 ($8 to $10 for fees and taxes *) per month for 3GB data plan is $1439.00 minimum.

• * depending on your local taxes.

There is no contract for the iPad on AT&T requiring monthly payment at all... if you want 3G access for a month, it's a flat $15 for 250MB or $25 for 2GB and $10 for each extra GB if you need it.

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