Recently Motorola launched Motorola Xoom - an answer to Apple's iPad. But it failed to grab the market even by 10% of iPads, which was thought to be a bang came out as a whimper. Apple's iPad rocked the apple's store the day it was launched while the Verizon and Best Buy Store were still looking for line ups and demands for Xoom in the market. There were several reasons behind this including lack of applications and originality.
This sudden failure of Xoom makes one thing very clear, this decade we are not going to see the emergence of the tablet market, its just the rise of iPad. Apple may succeed with the tablet but not others necessarily. This has also put an obvious danger for BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad which may also face similar anticlimactic roll-outs.
It also passes a message to the manufacturers that device makers shouldn't try to ape the iPad. Motorola's Droid phone(an answer to Apple's iPhone) has been popular because, among other reasons, it offers a form factor quite different than the iPhone's but that was not the case with Motorola Xoom.
This sudden failure of Xoom makes one thing very clear, this decade we are not going to see the emergence of the tablet market, its just the rise of iPad. Apple may succeed with the tablet but not others necessarily. This has also put an obvious danger for BlackBerry PlayBook and HP TouchPad which may also face similar anticlimactic roll-outs.
It also passes a message to the manufacturers that device makers shouldn't try to ape the iPad. Motorola's Droid phone(an answer to Apple's iPhone) has been popular because, among other reasons, it offers a form factor quite different than the iPhone's but that was not the case with Motorola Xoom.
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