All I see is the iPad 2 is $500 and the Xoom is $500 lol... The Xoom is going up against the $729 32 GB version of the 3G iPad 2. The difference is $70 and at least the Xoom has an SD slot so you can buy lots of cards and have more storage. It has flash support very soon, it has much better cameras with flash and stereo speakers with a higher resoltion screen and uses Honeycomb. Android is an open platform that you customise to make it suit you. IOS is this restrictive software that doesn't even let you change app Icons or add custom text alert sounds. Apple treat their customers as such retards that they don't let us customise anything. I've owned an iPhone 4 and I liked it at first, however Apple's shitty software has turned me off. They complain about flash crashing their macs and I agree it is the main reason why my browser crashes. However iTunes is the only program on my PC that crashes cosntantly for whatever reason, it's such a big resource hog. I build my own PCs, I know how to use them but everyone I know starts up iTunes and it has a 50% chance that it might crash on start up. Not only that but you're locked into iTunes which I find a horrible experience. When I reformat my PC I then have to lose all the media on my iPhone so I can sync it. I have to use Apple formats when I want to use other formats like FLAC or AVI. I'm going to be buying an Android Phone when my contract runs out and it's purely from using my friends. Being able to switch out the battery is something big for me because they run down so fast. Having an SD card slot is something I don't want to live without and I want flash or browsing the net is pointless. I want to make the phone my own, sick of Apple telling me how to use it. If I'm to buy a tablet this year it will be a Xoom or something similar. I see the reviews saying how amazing the iPad 2 is, I just can't understand why. Android has most apps come out for it these days and is a much better experience than IOS because you can do what you want with it. You have to jailbreak IOS to make it usable so why even bother having an iPad or iPhone? People make a big deal out of the price but it really isn't any more expensive for what you get extra... plus 1GB compared to 512mb... I heard in the UK the iPad 2 will be around £500 and I'm guessing the iPad 2 will be the same price as the first which in the UK was around £700.. so again even more reason.
I see your bet, and raise you $50. I don't know what I am talking about. ANyways, The Xoom is a really really attractive device. I may even get one over the iPad 2. But i do want one of those too. Yeah Apple keeps you in the back yard fenced in, but at least it's a pretty yard to look at and use.
Well, I think you've very misinformed, and a bit harsh in your comments Anyways, Android is indeed a promising platform, and it will eventually be good. But right now, if you don't want an iPad 2, I would just wait till june or even next year for other tablets to show up, because at the moment, there is just no competition, iPads are the best tablets..
I'm surprised you used the Android store as part of a reason for buying a Xoom. That's a daring move right there. Hardware is useless without great software, and I'm thinking someone might jump into this topic soon and give you an App Store vs Android Market post.
Which is why I don't understand why people buy tablets over laptops. A laptop has limited portability, granted, but so does a tablet. But if hardware is truly useless without great software, then there is no way that a tablet can ever compete with a laptop. Not in that realm. Not in the realm of software. Not in the realm of functionality either, at this juncture. Or features, or harddrive space, or benchmark, or basically anything.
I did NOT know my iPad and ipod were unusable coz they arent jailbroken. Someone please tell me how to make my iPad usable. Thanks! And while you're at it, please tell me what exactly is the meaning of word 'usable'. English isnt my native language so I'll appreciate all the help here. Thanks again!!
Hate to break it to you but android (in its current state) blows. It's a slow linux GUI running on top of java and a terribly splintered confusing API. I'm a developer. It takes me on average 2-5 times as long to develop something for android than it does on iOS with usually less attractive results. Until android gets their act together, I'll never port any of my apps to it.
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha. So what you're saying is you know nothing about Android.
While I haven't personally used a Xoom, this is the most generous review I can get for it and from the sounds of it, it completely blows. So I'm paying 200 more for something with no apps and works like crap... okay.... http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/23/motorola-xoom-review/
Yeh but these reviews also come from the people who give anything Apple a 9/10. Who over look all the flaws of the iPad 2 and still give it a 9/10. Also these people seem to hate anything that gives you a little bit of choice and claim it as not being user friendly. Really? do we need our hands to be held? Just go on XNA or something and mod it all for yourself to make it even better. I'd rather have choice so I can make it the experience I want, rather than my hand being held on an Apple product so I can't do anything.
That's because Apple makes products that merit that rating. It was a mistake for Engadget to implement those scorecards, because feckless idiots like yourself only look at the score and say OMG ENGADGET GAVE IPAD 9 AND XOOM GOT 7 WTF FANBOYS
I have a device with Android. There are widgets and moving wallpapers. Multitasking may not be simple, but everything is fast. It isn't the normal grid structure from apple and you can customize it a lot more. Now all they need to do is make more apps and that takes time. Also, the apps in the market give you a lot more features and power. There is also swype which is awesome. Notifications on the Android are also much better and easily accessible. FLASH. Cloud integration for free. The Android home-screen once customized looks gorgeous compared to square icons with one wallpaper.
*sigh* Look, Andriod users and Apple users have two completely different mentalities about how they want their hardware to operate and that is why it's good that that you can freely choose whichever platform you want. Instead of asking why UI customization isn't important to everyone here let me phrase it like this, why do you find it so important to play around with the UI when 99 percent of the experience comes in the form of apps? Why do you feel the device itself needs to be a hobby you can "customize" like a schoolgirl slapping My Little Pony stickers and drawing hearts on her binder rather then just being a useful straight forward product? There is certainly nothing wrong with thinking like that but can you not understand that maybe some of us just want to use apps and don't give a crap about customizing a UI that you spend all of two seconds looking at to launch an app? I tried to avoid this topic since it's impossible to tackle without all the vitriol, in the end if you can't see the other side's perspective you're just banging your head against the wall.
On a site where people very regularly say things like "I'd buy it if it was $1/£0.59, but $3/£1.79 is just way too much", you're asking why people complain about prices?
