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Hands-on Face-off: IPad 2 V Motorola Xoom
GMGruman writes "Is the iPad 2 all that it's cracked up to be? Or does the first Honeycomb Android tablet, the Xoom, still hold up? I spent an intense weekend comparing the two tablets, detailing in this review how each performs in a battery of tests."
Number of current Android tablet-specific apps (running Honeycomb): less than 100
Number of current iPad apps: over 65,000
Number of iPad apps at launch in April 2010: 2300 (citation)
I'm still not sure who would buy an Android tablet. Buying one is like buying a TV that gets only 3 channels. Why purchase a tablet hoping that the app inventory will grow when you can get a state-of-the-art iPad with 65,000 apps?
Kids go where the hardware is. Adults go where the applications are. I remember learning this when I switched from Sega to Playstation when I was in college and when I switched from MacOS 7.6 to Windows 2000 when I was in grad school.
Also, to get the Xoom's 3G, you have to commit to a 2-year contract, whereas the iPad's 3G has a monthly contract.
The ipad is an iphone for people with smaller dicks*. It's the same OS, comparable screen resolution, comparable function, stupid weight and fucking inconvenient to use.
So writing a tablet app for it is fundamentally the same as writing an iphone app. You just make a minor screen resolution change, republish as "Ipad version!" and get a second sale to the fuckwit that bought your iphone app.
Now I'm not going to pretend the Xoom is anything other than a stupidly oversized Android phone. However at least Android developers already know how to develop multi-resolution applications, and so their phone apps are already implicitly built for the tablet form factor. This means they don't need to recompile, they don't need to re-publish and nobody needs to buy the same software a second time.
That was the somewhat facetious point of Andy Dodd and your overreaction to him makes you look like the "fucking shithead", not him.
In the end...when we don't act like fucking children...we all win. Because BOTH companies will be forced to improve their devices and underlying OS's to stay competitive with each other. That is GOOD for all us consumers, period.
No, Apple customers still lose. They still can't run Flash, they can't use the same software on all their devices and they still suck up the same marketing bullshit. The competition is good though, I'll agree with that, but Apple's monopolistic practices are damaging to the nascent mobile devices market and for that reason alone I hope Steve Jobs is forced to retire and Apple go into steep decline.
* lets face it, most iphone purchasers are compensating for something
And a pool is just a stupidly oversized bathtub. No difference in use cases.
Droidbois must be really compensating since they're the ones that go out of their way to show how superior Android is.