If you need to justify your purchase of an iPad, look no further than Charles Arthur’s detailed review of the Motorola Xoom.
And here’s the one-line review: nope, not yet, Motorola/Google. The iPad still has it, by some distance. Honeycomb is nice, and the Android things that are better than iOS are still better (cough *notifications* cough), but tablets are harder than smartphones. Also, app stores really matter, and the Android Market isn’t nearly there.
He nails it. Android doesn’t know what it wants to be: a smartphone or a tablet. For example, Honeycomb still refers to ‘phone settings,’ on a tablet and renders mobile versions of some websites. Details matter and Apple understands this – their competitors don’t.
[via The Guardian]
