Browsing April, 2011 archives.

Xoom: “more than 250,000″

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

The Motorola Xoom is not selling as well as the iPad! While the Xoom figure is much higher than the 100,000 estimated by one analyst, its performance is considered disappointing given the emphasis both Google and Motorola placed on it as the iPad-defeating Android 3.0 flagship, up to and including a Super Bowl ad. At [...]

“Only” 4.69 million iPads

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

From Apple PR: The Company also sold 4.69 million iPads during the quarter Low sales compared with previously; but close to 20 million total now.

Zite

Monday, April 18th, 2011

I’ve never been too satisfied with news Apps on the iPad. Early, the various news Apps were too buggy so I stayed with Google News – which normally works quite well and learns to deliver interesting-to-me news, which makes it better than any App. However, recently I started using Zite, which is very impressive – [...]

“100,000 is a decent start”

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

From Morningstar, “Deutsche Bank Puts Motorola Xoom Sales At 100,000 … 100k units after only two months on the market is a decent start” “Decent” is a curious word, “compared with 300,000 iPads sold on the first day it was available”. Motorola rather failed their launch, omitting Flash (one thing that really can distinguish other [...]

Stephen Colbert

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

… got an iPad 2, all shiny and new, but then … not so much!

City Of Secrets

Monday, April 4th, 2011

City Of Secrets is a fabulous new iPad game, absolutely worth the $5 fee; very entertaining dialog and artwork, interesting puzzles and an ongoing background plot to keep you interested. You play sometimes as Moley (a Mole!) and sometimes as his friend Rex (a dog); after an early sequence “up top” you descend to a [...]