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1. More people, I think, are likely to buy an iPad from Apple.com rather than Amazon.com, so the fact that Xoom is higher-rated than iPad there doesn't mean much. IMO.

2. I have yet to see one in Canada, but I'm not really looking. However, it's certainly possible that people are always out of stock because they're only ordering 1 - 3 of them and there's definitely people out there who will buy things because they're not from Apple.

3. Granted.

4. If they're having problems with the channels and price points they have already, they're not likely to do much better outside. Motorola's built on the mobile phone channel. Building up a channel outside of your niche is hard.