Should i give up the xoom?

[anon(52425)]

I remember the Sony one. We really pushed those advertisements into theaters. Then one day we were requested to pull them.

 

[scorpiodsu]

Yes I have ;-) I wasnt sure if he was referring to Xoom, honeycomb, Google TV.. I didn't know, so i *gasp* asked.

Dumb move on my part i suppose.

No it's cool. I thought you could tell from the conversation but I can see how it could be a little confusing since he didn't quote me when responding. My bad.

 

[scorpiodsu]

I remember the Sony one. We really pushed those advertisements into theaters. Then one day we were requested to pull them.

Yeah the Kevin Bacon one just had him sitting there in the chair watching TV in a disguise as someone else who uses Google TV to look up information about Kevin Bacon. What!? And they wonder why no one cared about the Revue.

 

[jackhaen]

I just purchased the Xoom the day it was released from Verizon store and I'm now having second thoughts about keeping it. My concerns are software related. I have read that the Android Market had a number of programs that were malware infected. They reportedly removed some 50 apps. Any thoughts about that?

I do indeed have an iPad and will definitely purchase the iPad2 on the 11th.

 

[anon(52425)]

You have both? How does that work for you? You just alternate

 

[scorpiodsu]

I just purchased the Xoom the day it was released from Verizon store and I'm now having second thoughts about keeping it. My concerns are software related. I have read that the Android Market had a number of programs that were malware infected. They reportedly removed some 50 apps. Any thoughts about that?

I do indeed have an iPad and will definitely purchase the iPad2 on the 11th.

Yeah we were talking about that on another site. It's because Google doesn't have tight enough controls on it's app market. It's one thing for people to sideload apps or get from an unverified publisher or something and get infected but when they are available through the marker, that's a problem. Google doesn't have to have Apple's level of scrutiny but they need to do a better job of protecting it's users because those apps should not have been in the market at all. This is the disadvantage to being "open". Because if you stay "open" then stuff will slip by you. But if you start rejecting apps and restricting stuff you are no longer "open" like people so proudly proclaim. They just need a happy medium between being open and reviewing stuff before it's available to the end user.

 

[anon(52425)]

Yeah we were talking about that on another site. It's because Google doesn't have tight enough controls on it's app market. It's one thing for people to sideload apps or get from an unverified publisher or something and get infected but when they are available through the marker, that's a problem. Google doesn't have to have Apple's level of scrutiny but they need to do a better job of protecting it's users because those apps should not have been in the market at all. This is the disadvantage to being "open". Because if you stay "open" then stuff will slip by you. But if you start rejecting apps and restricting stuff you are no longer "open" like people so proudly proclaim. They just need a happy medium between being open and reviewing stuff before it's available to the end user.

Well put.