In his latest note to clients Global Equities’ Trip Chowdry “estimates that Motorola has sold somewhere between 15,000 and 120,000 Xoom tablets — hardly a propitious start for a company he perceives as being on the ropes,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“The successful launch of the iPhone on Verizon, he writes, has ‘taken the wind’ out of Android’s sails,” P.E.D. reports. “The Google app store is ‘a disaster.'”
P.E.D. reports, “Honeycomb, the operating system on which Motorola has hitched its wagon, is ‘incomplete,’ ‘unstable,’ has a ‘poor UI’ and is basically ‘dead on arrival.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: XOOMs. Xanax Overdose Obviously More stimulating.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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