“Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. has again lowered the entry price for its Xoom tablet, rolling out a new ‘family edition’ that will sell for $379 beginning Sunday,” Andrew Dowell reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“While Motorola is pitching the tablet at kids, the only significant hardware difference between the family edition and full-price version is that the new Xoom has 16GB of memory, half the amount as the device Motorola sells for $499,” Dowell reports. “The move to make the Xoom more affordable underscores the difficulty companies are having competing with Apple Inc.’s iPad on anything but price. BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. And Hewlett-Packard have also cut the prices of their tablets recently.”
Dowell reports, “The iPad has since accounted for some three-quarters of tablet shipments, Apple claims, a figure echoed by others in the technology industry. Even that figure may underplay Apple’s dominance. RIM acknowledged last month that many of the PlayBook tablets it has shipped are sitting around unsold at stores, and other tablets are likely seeing a similar fate. Technology data firm comScore said this week that the iPad accounts for 97% of all Internet traffic from tablets, indicating few others are seeing much use.”
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MacDailyNews Take: At any price, it’s futureless garbage.