Yeah, XOOM owner since the first day for me. Lived through the release rumors and Motorola debacle of a marketing campaign. Lived through the HC issues that forced us to carefully monitor each app or pay the consequence of a sluggish system.
The difference is I read the writing on the wall and am running an ICS ROM instead of waiting for Mot/Verizon. The tablet is awesome.
Dude... reread your posts. You're not making comparisons of similar products. Name these "similar products" you speak of. Look at the title of this thread!
You're upset with Motorola and unhappy with your XOOM. Even though most (if not all) the problems with HC have been addressed, you're whining that you don't have an official release of ICS yet. Serious?!
When people hate something or somebody it's so easy to amplify the faults... even see some that aren't even there. Your claim of inferior 4G connectivity - LOL!! I travel all around the country and have incredibly reliable connectivity. So do my family... oh, I forgot to say I bought three XOOMs on the very first day.
The cost of these things is not an issue for me. If there were something better, I'd be there. iPad is DEFINITELY not it. It's almost useless to a grown adult trying to use it for business. I'm looking with eagerness at the Win8 efforts. If I could have a tablet running full blown Windows... ;-) Oh yeah! If you want to really make comparisons, how about discussing that? Look forward to something with fewer limitations that will actually help us make money, not backward at something with oppressive limitations and is next to useless.
Back to my point with you... Look, if you're gonna do it, man up and own it. Don't try to sell it as some sort of altruistic comparison effort.