I would say yours is an uninformed interpretation of this report. Another way of reading this is that sales for the Motorola Xoom are on target and are expected to be 3-5 million this year. Presumably orders slow after any electronics product have been introduced. Maybe sales are somewhat slower than they would have liked, but to suggest this is the end of the Xoom-- which your post was clearly intended to imply-- is misleading and not supported by the cited article.
I would say yours is an uninformed interpretation of this report. Another way of reading this is that sales for the Motorola Xoom are on target and are expected to be 3-5 million this year. Presumably orders slow after any electronics product have been introduced. Maybe sales are somewhat slower than they would have liked, but to suggest this is the end of the Xoom-- which your post was clearly intended to imply-- is misleading and not supported by the cited article.
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I would say yours is an uninformed interpretation of this report. Another way of reading this is that sales for the Motorola Xoom are on target and are expected to be 3-5 million this year.
Presumably orders slow after any electronics product have been introduced. Maybe sales are somewhat slower than they would have liked
but to suggest this is the end of the Xoom-- which your post was clearly intended to imply-- is misleading and not supported by the cited article.
First of all that figure is referring to shipments of the xoom not the "sale" of them. If demand is practically none existent than it would make sense that they are decreasing orders instead of increasing, and by june cease manufacturing.
that just made me lol.
order slow sure. but the xoom was introduced at the end of February, wifi at the end of march.
Motorola still hasn't launched internationally yet they are decreasing instead of increasing shipments that will end in june.
yeah sounds like motorola has as much faith in the xoom as you do
umm... it is the end of the xoom, the article does cite it.
"But Motorola's Xoom orders in the second quarter will drop gradually each month, and orders will only last till the end of June, the sources said.
off topic: have you seen samsung tab 10.1, they just xuned the xoom.
The "sources"... im curious as to what these "sources" are. Also, isnt digitimes the website that basically posts anything? regardless of validity? thats my understanding of that website. Ill wait to believe any of this till I hear actual word. Sure, this MAY be true, but i kinda doubt it...
The only thing the articles really leaves clues to is the original Xoom maybe replaced in the 2nd have of 2011 by the Xoom 2. Not the end of the device all together.
That could be true but I highly doubt it.
It would be very unlikely for motorola to announce the 2 generation xoom 2-6 months after they started shipping the original.
Quote from the article, I personally have no clue but I read this to mean it is possible.
"Motorola's orders will drop to around 300,000 units in April and below 300,000 units in May. 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."
Looking at it like that, maybe the Xoom was already slated to be EOL in June if Moto already has tegra3 plans. - You'd have to think android dev. is probably even a generation ahead of what's currently released as well.
Hm, it's like you forget about the Droid, was that a booming success 30 days in? No, but 8 months later not one, but several next generation droids were announced and released.
So saying a Xoom 2 or Xoom pro or Xoom global will be out between Halloween & Thanksgiving isn't out of the realm of what Moto/VZW have already done in the past.