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Originally Posted by travfar
Bad. 100K units is not enough for it to be profitable.
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They probably aren't expecting to recoup all their costs from this single version of the xoom, it was clearly launched before the cheaper wifi-only model at the behest of verizon who are a vital part of motorola's business, not to mention the obvious point that they do need to at least starting products to get into a particular market.
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The Playbook is coming with 7 million units. Yes, RIMM is going to make 7 million of them. No way will they sell all those. They'll just flood the market and drive down the price of all the non iOS tablets. I'm waiting for Playbooks to be blown out for $200. Hopefully by then, someone on XDA will have ported Honeycomb to it.
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Where are you reading figures like that for the playbook, the only place I have seen figures like that are business analysts who think they might do that in their first year and even if rim did expect similar numbers they still wouldn't be making that many in advance so they won't be flooding the market nor pushing prices down as you mistakenly seem to think.
Incidentally, putting a port of Honeycomb onto the playbook would be a downgrade.
