Xoom Officially A Flop - 100,000 units sold

[poofyhairguy]

with the hi/lo res of iphone4 and below, you simply make 2 images, then name the low res one image.jpg and the hi res one image@2x.jpg, and it knows at runtime which one to load up based on the hardware. wish it was this easy for ipad cause i would have made mine native for that as well but i didn't.

This is why iPhone apps look terrible on the iPad I guess. Bitmap images.

 

[alent1234]

I don't get it. 5 minutes of playing with Honeycomb is enough to get around perfectly. Sure I had to tap a few buttons at first to see what happened, but after that it was fine. People act like using Honeycomb is like using an Abacus.

My god, even that article could only bring up a couple of things. HOLY SHIT, there is a search bar, a notification bar, a menu button, AND OH MY GOD IS EVEN AN APP BUTTON. THE HORROR IT'S SO COMPLICTED. The only thing they could do to make it worse is give us widgets so that we can obtain information on the home scree...HOLY SHIT NUMBERS ON THE HOME SCREEN. INFORMATION OVERLOAD.

it's not that the xoom is bad, it's that the android market sucks compared to the app store. unless all you want is live wallpapers, themes and hot chick ass wallpaper

 

[Aikouka]

I'm actually surprised that Apple hasn't implemented themes on iOS yet. Maybe they'd actually work well if they were built in. I tried Winterboard on my iPhone and the theme would go away when a folder is open and reappear when the folder "closes". Maybe I was using a bad theme, but I doubt it. Although, if the recent DailyTech article is any indication, there's decent money in themes.

 

[vshah]

http://android-gripes.tumblr.com/po...s-from-the-same-company-look-worse-on-android

Here are 3 more examples of better UI design on iPhone. Why does it look like crap on android?

clearly biased. the facebook app hasn't even finished loading, otherwise you'd see a photostream in the so called "wasted space" at the bottom.

 

[alent1234]

I'm actually surprised that Apple hasn't implemented themes on iOS yet. Maybe they'd actually work well if they were built in. I tried Winterboard on my iPhone and the theme would go away when a folder is open and reappear when the folder "closes". Maybe I was using a bad theme, but I doubt it. Although, if the recent DailyTech article is any indication, there's decent money in themes.

for most users it's way down on the wish list. i spent 18 months with a 3GS and didn't care. i rarely have wallpaper on my laptop as well. when i got my android i played with a few live wall papers for a week until the novelty wore off. now i don't care anymore

 

[finbarqs]

who cares... let motorola decide the fate of the xoom!

 

[Glitchny]

I don't get it. 5 minutes of playing with Honeycomb is enough to get around perfectly. Sure I had to tap a few buttons at first to see what happened, but after that it was fine. People act like using Honeycomb is like using an Abacus.

My god, even that article could only bring up a couple of things. HOLY SHIT, there is a search bar, a notification bar, a menu button, AND OH MY GOD IS EVEN AN APP BUTTON. THE HORROR IT'S SO COMPLICTED. The only thing they could do to make it worse is give us widgets so that we can obtain information on the home scree...HOLY SHIT NUMBERS ON THE HOME SCREEN. INFORMATION OVERLOAD.

Yea I don't get it either, it's not hard to figure out, in any sense.

 

[cheezy321]

clearly biased. the facebook app hasn't even finished loading, otherwise you'd see a photostream in the so called "wasted space" at the bottom.

Find one thing and call it clearly biased. You know there are two other examples in there, right? Just ignoring them? Care to talk about meebo? It looks like absolute shit on android compared to the iphone version.

 

[Mopetar]

This is why iPhone apps look terrible on the iPad I guess. Bitmap images.

That and the devices have different aspect ratios so there's always leftover space that makes it look awkward.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I don't get it. 5 minutes of playing with Honeycomb is enough to get around perfectly. Sure I had to tap a few buttons at first to see what happened, but after that it was fine. People act like using Honeycomb is like using an Abacus.

My god, even that article could only bring up a couple of things. HOLY SHIT, there is a search bar, a notification bar, a menu button, AND OH MY GOD IS EVEN AN APP BUTTON. THE HORROR IT'S SO COMPLICTED. The only thing they could do to make it worse is give us widgets so that we can obtain information on the home scree...HOLY SHIT NUMBERS ON THE HOME SCREEN. INFORMATION OVERLOAD.

You have to consider the consumers that tablets are intended for, I didn't "get it" and I'm a long time Android user, and had an iPad for a year as well.

I would have sorted it out pretty quickly, and it didn't affect my purchase decision, but it would affect other's choices.

 

[finbarqs]

if you can get a 90 year old woman to use the ipad, can you get that same lady to use the xoom just as effectively? point is, Apple makes their devices for the mass technical intelligence.. while Honeycomb is just what everyone from android wants!

 

[Ns1]

if you can get a 90 year old woman to use the ipad, can you get that same lady to use the xoom just as effectively? point is, Apple makes their devices for the mass technical intelligence.. while Honeycomb is just what everyone from android wants!

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[zerocool84]

Pretty much any decent unbiased reviewer has said that Honeycomb is much better than iOS and that iOS needs an overhaul asap. If it wasn't buggy I'm sure it'd be a great OS but it is buggy right now so we don't know.

 

[finbarqs]

not to say that the average intelligence of people around the world are idiots, just that they just don't want to learn anything that they dont' care about!

 

[QueBert]

This is why iPhone apps look terrible on the iPad I guess. Bitmap images.

where as Android apps look terrible on any Android device

 

[poofyhairguy]

where as Android apps look terrible on any Android device

Yeah, because Angry Birds is SO different between platforms.....

 

[MrX8503]

yes it does to an extent but you can take it too far, which that app has done

itunes is another great example of taking a GUI too far. both winamp in classic mode and fubar are superior because of less bloat

lol thats the first time I've heard someone say iTunes GUI is too far.

It looks like ass to you, it looks like functionality to me. It's a reason I hate the new minimalistic design the new firefox and chrome have. I WANT all my menus and all my buttons laid out. It makes it that much easier to do things even if it is more "ugly".

Android's unit converter is 100% pure functionality and provides everything you ever need in one screen. The menus don't rely on pictures and uses standardized terms organized in a simple list so I'm not wasting my time scrolling through them individually.

Can you not grasp the concept of functionality AND aesthetics? This is where I see developers fail everyday. If we want functionality we'd all drive Hondas, if we want both, we would drive Ferraris.

This is where developers are separated from the ordinary to the geniuses, and I can guarantee you the geniuses are laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[Tom]

Which quite possibly is rather soon if the Asus tab works out.

Asus ? Mass market ? Not in America.

No Android tablet will catch on unless it's $200, or because people can't find an iPad.

The average person knows 2 things about tablets. 1. ipad is great. 2. Kindle is great for books.

Everything else is a cheap substitute.

 

[runawayprisoner]

Pretty much any decent unbiased reviewer has said that Honeycomb is much better than iOS and that iOS needs an overhaul asap. If it wasn't buggy I'm sure it'd be a great OS but it is buggy right now so we don't know.

Well, correction, Honeycomb reads superior to any tech blogs.

iOS looks superior to any other consumer blog. If I have to round up reviews, I'm quite certain iOS will come through in some. It's a 50/50 battle.

 

[finbarqs]

different systems for different markets..