"Today we got the best look yet at Google's anti-iPad, the Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet OS. Though much has been shared previously, it's finally clear what Google is doing to differentiate its tablets from the iPad — and what Google thinks works so well on Apple's platform that they're borrowing it for themselves." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

space age stuff - Vezquex

Apple is still probably ahead in UI and hardware, but these tablets may be very popular with new users who might not afford Apple's premium sticker price. - Mike Chelen

^ Not true. Prices for iPad are far from premium at the moment ($499 for basic iPad), Android-based tablets can't beat that yet, unless they start a price war with Apple (and they can't do that either, because it might lead to negative margin and other neat consequences). - Хозяин строки

Actually, not all of them overpriced — Moto is coming to realization of price drops that are necessary to compete with Apple (and thus considers the price tag for Xoom around 5 hundred bucks in big retail outlets). As for overpriced, there was a torrent of stories about costs and supply chain of both Apple and others (mostly Samsung/Motorola), here's the one from NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011... — overpriced is not the central issue, while profit margin is (i.e. Apple earns more from their devices _per unit_ than competition does, even though competition is more expensive, and lower prices at the moment means more sales, and iTunes Store and this whole service infrastructure means more sales as well). - Хозяин строки

$500 is still a reasonable amount more than the ~$250 netbooks which support more software and include full keyboards. - Mike Chelen

There's no netbook comparable to Xoom's Tegra chipset or 1280 x 800 screen resolution and 10 hrs battery. You get either "long battery+low power" or "fair power+average battery", and when you find one that's both, then it isn't $250 notebook already. I don't say there's no way to cut the price (Apple has always taken a premium niche, be it Mac, iPod or iPhone, so iPad for $499 means that its price can be cut at least 30-40%). It's just that I don't see Samsung or Moto doing that or reaching that level. So I wonder what Asus EEE-series tablets will work like — I own two different EEE-netbooks and they're more than just okay devices (for their money), so I wouldn't mind trying EEE-pad out when it reaches our shores. - Хозяин строки