“According to sources from upstream suppliers… Motorola’s Xoom orders in the second quarter will drop gradually each month, and orders will only last till the end of June,” Yenting Chen and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes.
“Motorola’s orders will drop to around 300,000 units in April and below 300,000 units in May,” Chen and Tsai report. “The sources believe the unclear market status of iPad-like tablet PCs is the reason for Motorola to reduce its orders and the company may launch a new Xoom model in the second half after evaluating the situation.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here’s the situation, Motorola: You can’t compete with Apple. Repeat after us: iDon’t have the scale. iDon’t have the talent. iDon’t have the ecosystem. iDon’t have the OS. iDon’t have the R&D. iDon’t have the apps. iDon’t have a chance.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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Well, that was fast.
But, yeah, at least Motorola had the good sense to cut bait.
What the hell does ‘zuned’ mean?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Zuned™ means the product has been assessed as being a sub-standard copy of an original successful prouduct, and that it will not sell. ZT™ your posts are always fun to read
I’m anxiously awaiting my iPad 2 and am almost too deep in the Apple world, but I want competition. The benefits of competition have been clearly defined elsewhere but I don’t want to live in a world where Apple is the only option.
The complete lack of ‘competition’ doesn’t seem to have mattered much. The notion that competition is ‘good’ for Apple is flawed.
Competition is the process by which quality and price find their happy norm, in theory. Many cereal manufacturers ensure we get the cereals we want at the prices we want, sort of. What happens when a product is produced that gets there first try? There is not much room for competition and, by the same token, not much need for it either. It seems the cry for ‘competition’ is simply a more sophisticated way of saying ‘I want a USB port on it.’
To say other manufacturers must respond, or should respond, is like demanding salamanders grow wings now the dragon has arrived. They are me-too suppliers and unless and until they choose to understand why the iPod and the iPad sell so well and actually do something about it then they will fail.
It will be hard for me too companies to compete with iPad. Its not about the RAM or hardware, it’s all about ecosystem and user experience. iTunes was one of the main reason apple won the iPod wars. App store and iTunes will be the same reason iPad will kill these ipad killers.Most of them are not going to switch to Android because of some customizations and tinkering.
Oops – it hasn’t even launched in the UK yet!
LOL… Objective journalism at its best for that Samdung news… Fanboys creaming and anti mac bloggers, writers (not journalist) creaming, even main stream media who lost all journalistic integrity are regurgitating that piece of samdung press release poop as if its a real working device. love the joke!!!
I am still mad at Motorola for ditching their Mac workstations years ago for WinNT when they were still a part of the IBM/Motorola/Apple PPC design team. Stupid idiots. Revenge IS sweeter when it has had a chance to ferment. *hick*
I like THEIR strategy, I like it a lot…
:):):) Too Funny
Neeeext!
Wasn’t the Xoon the win of a Best at Winter CES 2011? A device at the time not much more than a video player?
Saw one at Frys the other day. Not impressed!
All I can say is.
One in hand is worth two in the bush…
You must shoot where the target will be not where it is right now…
Zume
~~ In my crystal ball I see product dumping of the Zume this fall after the failure of sales for the new school year. I see plans for the Zume II scraped and Motorola exiting the tablet market. ~~ 😳
Bloodbath: Motorola Needs Mops!