Interesting once again. What I find even MORE interesting is that I can buy an iPad 2 for the same price as that Xoom and get a month to month data plan. With these devices, you pay the same price as the industry leading iPad and are stuck with a poorer performing device for two years.

I am rather pleased that you pretty much proved my point that these companies cannot compete with Apple on cost of manufacturing - and the consumer will take it in the rear for it if they blindly decide to go this route.