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Originally Posted by boswd
I don't think "baked" is the proper adjective, it sort implys software shortcomings that really aren't truely fixable,
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Not at all. I expect every one of these issues to be resolved in time. It's simply a product that's been released before major features are actually done.
I'm sure there will be apps, but Apple got it's SDK done early enough to get it out to developers soon enough, that there were 3,300 apps at launch date, and 30,000 apps a couple months later, and now over 60,000 apps.
If Steve Jobs had talked about how wonderful the iBookStore was, and then shipped the iPad without the iBookStore being ready -- then yeah, the iPad too would have been unfinished.
Memory card slot. Well, the Xoom has one and the iPad doesn't. Yet the Xoom's doesn't work yet. That's certainly worthy of the claim "they shipped it before it was done".
I'm not suggesting the iPad is better because it doesn't even intend to have a memory card slot -- of course a non functioning one is better than not having one as you can expect it will function some day.
It just shoes a bit of the difference between where the iPad is at and where the Xoom is at that paints a picture quite opposed to the check list presented at the beginning of this thread.
The Motorola Xoom is the premiere, banner holding product for the launch of Google's highly anticipate "made for tablets" OS. And it came out not fully baked -- and priced higher to boot.
Lee