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They cite Misek, Chowdhry and Sterling--only 2 are redundant though they use the quotation in different contexts--but i see what youre getting at. Thats fair.

Sales of the iPad 2 havent been released officially yet to my knowledge but sales in the first 3 days are thought to be around 600000--more than the original iPad made in its first week and look how well it did in the long run--and to sell around 5.5 million units in its first quarter.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870402750457619...

http://www.wowtechy.com/apple-ipad-2-sales-forecast/

Furthermore, iPad is meeting current projections of 45 million (though this likely includes sales of the iPad2).

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/blog/626826/45_million_ipad_sa...

On the other hand, Xoom was projected to ship only 800,000 in its first quarter and 1 million if lucky.

http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20110110/motorola-xoom-sale...

however, actual sales for the Xoom have been so terrible that they're not even releasing them and theyre planning to cut back production for future quarters.

http://www.benzinga.com/news/11/03/914761/motorola-xoom-sale...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/motorola-xoom-sales-tepid-prod...

I cant provide any more information than that right now because it literally isnt available to the public as far as I know; however, we can induce from whats above that Apple really isn't feeling the effects predicted by Xoom analysts, if they are feeling effects at all. And this is despite the superior hardware listed in my previous post.

Sure, Motorola dominated at CNET this year, but so did Palm when it announced the Pre and we've seen how that worked out. Like I said earlier, I have no allegiances to Apple but I think its rather difficult to deny that theyre dominating the tablet platform. You seem hypercritical of my evidence which is fine but I have yet to see any to the contrary. If its out there I'm happy to be enlightened.