>Best Buy has begun promoting Motorola’s Xoom tablet. Pre-orders begin on Thursday at Best Buy stores (or so they delusionally dream).
Price: $1,199.99. 1 month data activation with Verizon Wireless required.
Best Buy’s Motorola Xoom page is here.
MacDailyNews Take: No wonder Motorola named it “exhume,” it’s already dead.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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At the top of Best Buy’s tablet page, they stil have the Xoom line with a “learn more” link … That’s broken. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/iPad-Tablet-PCs/Tablet-PCs/pcmcat209000050008.c?id=pcmcat209000050008
With similarly configured iPad, it costs about $729 (iPad 32GB 3G), MOTO must be insane to price the XOOM at $1,200. I suspect it is MOTO’s marketing ploy.
BTW, the ad say it has a “32 GB hard drive”. Is it a flash drive? Or the old fashioned platter based hard drive??
can see it now. In 10 years their will be a subject in a Marketing 101 course titled “The Place Holder That Killed A Product”. Better known as how to kill your product before it hits the shelves.
Since it will be available for pre-order on Thursday then the real price is known so there is no reason for a placeholder on a live website.
This will rank right up there as a marketing disaster on the level of the PCjr or the Osborne 2.
The Xoom has been removed for the Best Buy website.
Like driving by a road accident.
Are you kidding? A train wreck drove over here to see what the matter was all about!
This is depressing. How can people be so dumb! Are they really so anti-Apple that they’d jump on anything remotely close, regardless of the cost? Gah!
That’s right. It’s depressing isn’t it?
People are so anti-Apple that they’d jump on anything remotely close, regardless of the true cost of their cheaply-made PC’s.
Unfortunately, I have zero hope for mankind. They’re too f-ing dumb to survive. One can only hope for an intervention from the Greys.
I still doubt the ad’s price is real and suspect the real price will be comparable to iPad’s. Regardless, MOTO still lack Apple’s ecosystem, user experience, support…etc
In fact, HP’s WebOS may have better shot at completing with Apple because now HP has complete control of it’s own OS – WebOS and system hardware. One big unknown will be how HP is able to integrate everything in a coherent manner.
As usual, Apple innovate and others follow/copy…
D. O. A.!!!!!!!
i heard this website got hacked
Many of these comments sound like PC users slamming Apple over their Mac prices… oh wait… Most of you are PC users and you now have someone new to antagonize.
Let me see a show of hands of those of you who were saying the same things about Apple a few years ago.
Heh, heh, heh.
Just for clarification, xoom is pronounced “zoom”, not “x-oom or exhume”
Oh this is a placeholder alright. Don’t worry, it’ll actually cost $800…
….Which is $70 more than the 32Gb iPad 3G (which is unlocked)
You know what really gets me on my nerves?
On Engadget, some rotten-brain Xoom apologist first claimed that the iPad 2 will cost the same as the Xoom if it does have a dual core processor. I can’t understand the “Motorola is ALWAYS CHEAPER BECAUSE IT IS” logic, but that’s just the beginning.
He claimed that otherwise (were iPad 2 to cost $500 and up again) Apple would be ripping off last year’s costumers.
…
Now that everyone facepalmed and laughed, let’s get to the point.
As a final insult, he tried to stab OTHER Apple products “$1700 for an i3 processor?” (iMac), “1900 for 256Mb GPU??”
Not only he is painfully wrong here (the 2k iMac has a 1Gb ATI 5750), but he is doing what 99.9999% PC users do: selective memory about iMac specifications. THIS IS WHAT GETS ON MY NERVES.
Let’s remind him that that i3 is not only clocked at max levels (3,2), but that the iMac is, imagine that, a freaking all-in-one! It means it has a giant, 27″ IPS LCD LED screen that would have cost $1000 if you bought it from Dell alone. For those other $700 you get the 3,2 GHz i3, 4Gb 1333MHz RAM, ATI 5670, 1Tb 7200 rpm HD, SuperDrive, SDXC reader, iSight, Wireless N, Bluetooth 2.1, dual speakers, FireWire, Optical Audio…
Of course some idiot would stop by and say “I can create that same computer for $500”. Fine. No warranty, no costumer service, no iLife, no Aluminum compact case, no Magic Mouse, no bluetooth keyboard then….
I saw that on engadget, too. “The original mac cost $2500, but you can get that much processing power today in a $10 calculator! Steve Jobs [personally, it’s always personal] ripped everybody off for $2400!! Mac users are abused sheep!”
Incredible.
He just sounds like a typical box-builder; someone who is more interested in making a computer, than actually using one.
The real challenge for them is to have a computer boot the first time it’s powered up and it doesn’t end there. There is still plenty of tweaking left to do, in order to exact every ounce of performance from the beast. They’re never satisfied and the process gnaws at them, it consumes all their time, immersed in specs and prices.
That is what computing is all about for box-builders. To you or I, it’s a matter of being productive using the computer. For many of us, the computer is a tool, a means to an end.
For a few box-building 10-percenters, it’s all about pride, self-aggrandizement, the power of mind over matter, and unleashing the beast by unlocking the secrets of the universe, resulting from a serendipitous moment of aligning the pieces of the puzzle in just the right fashion, so as to become a god.
When that doesn’t happen, they start all over again, with better parts, a bit of voodoo, and just a dash of hope. They are the builders of computers for the ages, no-name machines too powerful for mere mortals.
Oh and did I mention, most of them live in their mom’s basement.
Well, problem is even people who buy from brands compare Macs poorly. As in, comparing an all-in-one iMac with a normal tower computer (always ignoring the effin screen, of course), comparing an Alienware with a Mac Pro (ignoring the server parts and other expensive Pro stuff) or an iPad to a cheap notebook (ignoring… well you know what I mean).
I am talking about hypocrites. That’s what they are when they talk crap out of Mac users and calls us “sheeple” when they are the ones blind to reality.
“Exhume”. Nice. That ranks up there with “lazy Adobe ingrates”.