Motorola Xoom Android tablet flopped big time

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(WIRED)
Motorola's Android tablet sales fizzle out
   
By Mike Isaac, WIRED

-- Motorola announced dismal device sales in its earnings report on Thursday, with tablets faring near the worst among the company's products.

The company shipped 11 million mobile devices over the past three months, according to the quarterly statement. Yet only 440,000 of those were tablet devices.

In other words, the Motorola Xoom Android tablet flopped big time.

Out of the remaining 10.56 million devices shipped, 4.4 million of those were smartphones. That number of course pales in comparison to Apple's 20-plus million iPhones sold last quarter, and even to the 5 million Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphones sold in the first three months of the phone's release. Especially considering that's 4.4 million across all of Motorola's device models.
It's a quarter of rough numbers for the company, which of course is facing competition on all sides.

For perspective's sake, compare the 440,000 Xoom tablets with Apple's numbers this quarter: The Cupertino giant sold 9.25 million iPads over the last quarter, almost 20 times the number of Motorola's Xoom's.

And it's important to note that when Motorola says 440,000 units "shipped," that signifies the number of devices sold to retail stores, not to customers. It's difficult to determine how many actual sales to customers occurred without further detail.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/07/29/motorola.android.tablet.sales.wired/index.html?iref=NS1

[Unicron Social]

Didn't the Tab suck and have alot of bugs. Heard from some that is was not very responsive.

[DJPixcell]

I like it, yet I don't, and honestly, wouldnt buy it. I would rather have the Galaxy Tab 10.1 if I was going with android on a tablet, or the playbook.. hell I think i would rather take the HP touchpad over the Xoom.

[pwrhamr]

  They blew the price point.

[Randallflagg]

Has any tablet sold well other then the iPad? Always hearing about this next amazing tablet, then it just fizzles on release and we wait for the next BIG thing.

[Randallflagg]

I played with the xoom for a very short time at staples the other day, first time I had seen on in person. I can see why it was a flop, especially compared to the iPad. No where near as smooth as iOS, seemed chopping moving around, and the screen looks no where near as sharp as the iPad, not sure if its the design of the icons or what, but it looked like a cheap nock off.

Someone had also been messing around with it, and it had some sort of strange lightening video warp thing going on in the background and just made the whole thing look like a mess.

WebOS looked nice, ran much smoother then the Android tablets, not sure what model it was, didn't spend to much time looking at them.

[Minchkin]

WebOS looked nice, ran much smoother then the Android tablets, not sure what model it was, didn't spend to much time looking at them.

HP TouchPad

[IGNITIONDREAM]

Yeah, the Xoom is kinda' bulky compared to other Android Honeycomb tablets out on the market right now; Glad i waited for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 ... it's AWESOME !!!

[Randallflagg]

Yeah, the Xoom is kinda' bulky compared to other Android Honeycomb tablets out on the market right now; Glad i waited for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 ... it's AWESOME !!!

I have not tried any Android tablet that is anywhere as smooth as the iPad, they also felt unrefined, but that probably changes once you customize it for how you want to work with it. Based on my limited time checking out a sea of different android tablets at a box store, and one WebOS tablet, the only one that I would probably seriously consider other then my iPad 2 is the WebOS, but its limited by how much is out there app wise.

[WillysJeepMan]

Yeah, the Xoom is kinda' bulky compared to other Android Honeycomb tablets out on the market right now; Glad i waited for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 ... it's AWESOME !!!

I have not tried any Android tablet that is anywhere as smooth as the iPad, they also felt unrefined, but that probably changes once you customize it for how you want to work with it. Based on my limited time checking out a sea of different android tablets at a box store, and one WebOS tablet, the only one that I would probably seriously consider other then my iPad 2 is the WebOS, but its limited by how much is out there app wise.

Customizing an Android tablet doesn't make it any better. Android (Gingerbread or Honeycomb) is not ready for tablets despite what the fandroids claim. Multitasking task management is broken (by design) and it just gets worse from there.

Truth be told, it is has only been wishful thinking by anti-Apple people that gave these competing tablets any buzz.  They diss the iPad due to lack of an SD slot but lauded the Motorola Xoom for including an SD slot... in spite of the fact that the device shipped in Feb 2011 without support for the slot and only added it last week.

The competition is stumbling and fumbling over themselves and there will still be mindless anti-Apple bigots who blame the so-called mindless Apple customers for the iPad's success.