Motorola Xoom Super Bowl Ad Pokes at Apple

[aaron88_7]

Anybody angry, even a little, over tablet wars seriously needs to get a life, not another tablet!

 

[Guest]

Apple is extremely innovative which leaves most of its competition's products as "cheap clones" of an awesome original. I strongly welcome some much needed competition to Apple. The only problem is when people forget to shop smart.
It's gotten to the point that the brand Apple is a fashion statement in itself because they have such good and cool products. As competition becomes more innovative and truly challenges Apple, everyone will benefit in choices and prices.

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

Why is this news?

 

[kamakazedman2142]

I don't agree with this add at all. Apple have always been the innovators and the competition has always been the copy cat. This is a perfect example. The Xoom looks like a Ipad clone. There is nothing innovative or new about the Xoom. All they've done is ramped up the specs and so they should since the Ipad is already a year old.

 

[Guest]

Well it's what it is, an ad. It's supposed to catch your attention, even if it's illogical, wrong or just plain stupid. Apple has had the ipad out on the market for almost a year now, while all motorola has to show to us are engineering samples and ads.

You'd better hope motorola it's better than the ipad, since ipad is getting old by now and is soon to be replaced with a new model. Also, hw specs don't impress me much, what impresses me is the reaction of the OS, regardless of the HW at it's disposal.

That said, can't wait for the reviews.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]Wusiki[/nom]Apple is extremely innovative which leaves most of its competition's products as "cheap clones" of an awesome original. I strongly welcome some much needed competition to Apple. The only problem is when people forget to shop smart.It's gotten to the point that the brand Apple is a fashion statement in itself because they have such good and cool products. As competition becomes more innovative and truly challenges Apple, everyone will benefit in choices and prices.[/citation]


Your joking right? what innovation? they haven't "invented" or innovated at all. they took a mp3 player put it in a ugly case locked it down and raised the price.. the only thing innovative about apple is their marketing. I wouldn't buy apple because they are actually superior in anyway i mean same hardware same storage same everything i can think of and actually in a lot of their products they are pretty behind in the hardware department. Nothing special about their software and being locked down i would say they are behind in that area to just for that simple fact.

The people who actually believe apples products are innovative might see others as cheap clones i suppose. But Those cheap clones often more so then not offer the exact same ability if not more so then the apple knock off and don't cost nearly as much.

[citation][nom]kamakazedman2142[/nom]I don't agree with this add at all. Apple have always been the innovators and the competition has always been the copy cat. This is a perfect example. The Xoom looks like a Ipad clone. There is nothing innovative or new about the Xoom. All they've done is ramped up the specs and so they should since the Ipad is already a year old.[/citation]

Like i asked before what innovation? all apple did was steal another idea from someone else and put it in a cheap plastic casing and put a fruit on it. Steal might be to strong of word but they sure as hell didn't invent the damn thing or innovate. they just did what they do with every other existing product they copy. put it in a cheap plastic case sometimes aluminum put a apple on it lock it down and raise the price..

I would love a pad that can tether to all my devices let me do whatever i wanted to it load what i want and had a nice bit of power i honestly don't care who makes it, but apple can never cover these things for me. I also don't really see any other pad right now that will do much to catch my attention either. Since i have a BB phone the BB pad might get me but then im screwed if i change to say android so yeah...... Actually i wouldn't mind if asus made it 😉

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

While Apple has strictly invented things like IEEE 1394 (FireWire), their most important contribution, in my mind, is improving existing technologies and setting them up in a way that brings great things like the mouse, the laptop trackpad, graphical user interfaces, calligraphic typefaces, USB, into the mainstream.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]Nim Chimpsky[/nom]While Apple has strictly invented things like IEEE 1394 (FireWire), their most important contribution, in my mind, is improving existing technologies and setting them up in a way that brings great things like the mouse, the laptop trackpad, graphical user interfaces, calligraphic typefaces, USB, into the mainstream.[/citation]

Where is IEEE now? The mouse ok they used it but didn't do anything to it ibm used it didn't do anything to it. apple didn't invent the track pad though in every laptop from ibm compatibles to mac used them from the 386 and up. they again did nothing special with it as far as i can see. GUI Honestly i think windows did it much much much better. OS X was really the first GUI OS mac made i can say really competed at least in the GUI area i wont get into anything else on that. Yes they i do believe made smooth type fonts in their OS at least before most others did. While apple did use USB their use of it hardly dented the introduction of it into the main stream.

Mostly im trying to figure out how apple improves anything. But when it comes to apple innovations IEEE is really the only thing people say, then they normally go on to talk about how apple reinvents the wheel like it was some sort of achievement. Apple does do one thing right.. Market, it just goes to show how you can repackage something make it worse and still make people buy it with a good add. if anything thats an apple innovation make people buy something already on the market for 3x the cost for no reason other then to own a locked down stripped down version with an apple on it.

 

[Nim Chimpsky]

You should read my post again. I didn't say they invented the trackpad, but put it in a list of things they popularized.
You should also familiarize yourself with the history of the operating system. OS X is rather new, System 1.0 was the first commercial GUI.
And yes, you could say Apple reinvents the wheel. That was exactly my point. They bring a fresh take to existing technology. Think about the iPhone. Smartphones existed before, but that was a revolutionary product according to anyone who isn't a bitter iPhone-less miser.

 

[Griffolion]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]I think what it really shows is the number of people who will buy an iPad 2 vs a XOOM.[/citation]

Which is a good thing, i don't want everyone having the tablet i have, i'd like to have some semblance of uniqueness. I've seen a number of the posts you have made, you're not fooling anyone, you're basically an Apple fanboy trying to pose as someone who knows what they're talking about.

[citation][nom]kamakazedman2142[/nom]I don't agree with this add at all. Apple have always been the innovators and the competition has always been the copy cat. This is a perfect example. The Xoom looks like a Ipad clone. There is nothing innovative or new about the Xoom. All they've done is ramped up the specs and so they should since the Ipad is already a year old.[/citation]

Let me guess, all tower based PC's are clones of the Mac Pro? All laptops are clones of the Mac Books? All netbooks are clones of the Mac Book Air? All all-in-one's are clones of the iMacs? Just because the Xoom looks like a tablet, doesn't mean it looks like a clone of the iPad. Oh and if by innovation you mean took something that was already there and made it pretty, then fine, they're 'innovators'.

 

[g00fysmiley]

"Apple will gobble up the bulk of the market profit (as it does now with the smartphone, accounting for 50% of the industry profits). Every other me-too brand will be fighting for spare change"

and nobody has questioned or asked for citation on this? ... nobody has even close to 50% of profits in the smartphone market heck android and symbian (nokia) devices both outsold iphones globally last quarter

 

[flvinny521]

[citation][nom]aznguy0028[/nom]lol troll bait taken.. u mad brah?[/citation]

Come at him.

 

[B-Unit]

[citation][nom]kamakazedman2142[/nom]I don't agree with this add at all. Apple have always been the innovators and the competition has always been the copy cat. This is a perfect example. The Xoom looks like a Ipad clone. There is nothing innovative or new about the Xoom. All they've done is ramped up the specs and so they should since the Ipad is already a year old.[/citation]

LOL, yes, 'innovation' is taking your smartphone design, doubling its size, and claiming its 'magical'.

Brilliant!

 

[tempelife]

Arguments regarding Apple are all too often misunderstood by fanboys. Many fanboys talk about Apple's success in financial terms such as revenue, profit, market cap of stock, etc. Great, that isn't really the point of trying to put Apple in the rightful place in the world of technology. People who the greatness of Apple such as myself have a fundamental problem in how the run the business, thus refuse to support Apple regardless of their success. All companies are profited oriented and can be somewhat proprietary in nature, but Apple may be number one in both of the aforementioned qualities. Simple tech people with little need for much functionality will never know what they are missing by an Apple product nor do they probably care too much that they overpay verses the competition because the life cycle of the product they by may be several years. People more in tech and want extrapolate all possible fundamental uses of a device will not likely buy an Apple product as in general lack many features that competitors have. In addition, buying a new device on an every 6 month cycle would make Apple seem like a very expensive option, so basically their products are a poor value relative to others. To really get into it more, Apple is given way to much credit for being innovated. They have been innovative for 2 decades. MP3 players were around long before the iPod. I loved my old iRiver and Creative Labs from about 10 years ago (both had FM radio, speaker recording, line-in recording, etc.). They were easy to use and feature rich. Problem is that financially they can't compete with Apple, so that battle is lost even though one would get more for less money with those other makers. Tablets existed before the iPad. It's just that nobody cared until Apple released one. I'ts like a religion where so many followers just believe without questioning. At best, Apple's hardware is just above average and overpriced. They have already fallen behind significantly in the mobile ware. Dual core 1ghz chips are shipping in 3 weeks in the U.S. and 1.2Ghz chips will soon follow well before the iPhone 5 is released. By the time of that release, we will only be several months away possibly from a 3D Display with a Quad Core on the nVdia Tegra 3. Not too mention, Apple and their well-documented antenna problem. Any other maker would have been crushed and most likely would have had to pony up on a recall. Apple just says, "You're holding it wrong. Buy a case." Really! I hate cases. They make my phone thicker in my pocket. I don't even carry a wallet or money clip - straight money in cards in my pocket. Apple also believes in censorship. Negative comments about products on their message board are deleted. No other company that I'm aware in the country would do something like that. There is a fundamental problem with that for me. In the end, people who are very informed and need a lot of functionality will still away from Apple in general. I just can't support a company who is so anti-consumer.

 

[Guest]

I get a chuckle every time I see neurotic Apple haters spin another one of their fantasies about how this or that non-Apple product is "better" than the Apple version (they are never better, just ugly, thick, heavy, and pale rip-offs of Apple ideas) - and how that non-Apple product is going to really give Apple a run for its money.

In this case you have these wild-eyed fantasists informing us that the XOOM is the tablet to have. It's such a pathetic detachment from reality. As I type this, people are in long lines outside of every Apple store in the U.S. waiting to get their iPad2. Meanwhile, Motorola is running this infantile XOOM commercial with the guy in the craptastic computer-generated pod to try and make it look as if their product is cool. Moto and all of the other iPad wannabes are spinning their wheels.

Apple haters are losers who have no grasp of reality and distorted assembly of ignorant stances regarding Apple vs. the "competition". Apple haters might not have such low self esteem if maybe they had at some point in their life gotten laid. Good luck with that!