Listen, I've yet to play with the new Xoom 2 models -- or, as the new devices are called at Verizon, the XYBoards. I'm sure both the 8.9 and 10.1 models are fine tablets. They probably power through the hundred or so Honeycomb apps like a championship thoroughbred. But it doesn't matter. No one is going to buy the new-ish tablets. They will flop harder than the original Xoom. Right now there are essentially two tablets that matter on the market: the $500 iPad and the $200 Kindle Fire. Because of this, there are just two price points. The iPad set the bar at $500 for full-featured tablets while the Fire is doing the same for budget models. Any tablet that attempts to jam itself into this pricing scheme is currently destined to fail. The low-end wants the Amazon pedigree while the high end knows that they want an iPad. The mid-range Android models are strong, I will admit, but they aren't what compels the average shopper.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/46AxKsSPZLY/
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