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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I agree with much of what you say, but, the XOOM price thing annoys me. The equivalent XOOM and iPad are identical in cost (in the UK, anyway). Oh, and flash worked straight out of the box, didn't it?
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The equivalent Xoom and iPad (32 G/ 3G) cost the same in the US, too. However, the most popular iPad is the 32G wifi, which is $100 less, and the second most popular is the 16G wifi, which costs $200 less. It's not that they are charging more for an equivalent product; it's that they are not offering a popular, less expensive product. And that they may have lost potential customers because of this.
The Xoom was released on 2/24; the update enabling flash was released on 3/11 (at least in the US). So it was a couple of weeks.