I guess I'm having a hard time taking this thing that seriously compared to the Xoom. I mean, if Toshiba told me they were releasing full source at launch and include flashing utilities, I'd be ecstatic and would buy in a second. Like I said, I like Android and tinkering. I recognize that I'm a minority and I suspect Toshiba wants to move these puppies.
-1? Really? The hardware looks inferior to the Motorola Xoom. The Toshiba has that awkward chrome and has hardware buttons when Honeycomb is eliminating them or making them redundant. I guess others are just uh super into Toshiba?
I downvoted you because you jumped right in at the beginning of the thread and made a bunch of posts about the Xoom, all of which sounded more like excuses to mention it than like informative posts. Acting like a marketing bot is as bad as being a marketing bot in my book. If people are interested, they'll respond or upvote. If they ignore you, they're not interested. There's no need to repeat yourself all over the place. (However, if this stupid pagination thing keeps going, I will start to be more sympathetic to thread-spamming.)
So two constitutes a bunch now? Especially when one is in reply to the notion that "techies" are going to buy it when it has an inferior build, inferior specs and a bulkier size, and the other was a general comment at the top level of comments?
"all over the place is an exaggeration". Clearly I'm not a marketing bot, that's equally absurd.
I count three, with no information about the Xoom (before you got downvoted) except that it would "slaughter" the Toshiba and its UI was "better." I think the downvoting was consistent with HN standards. When a particular web site is under discussion and a guy posts a plug for a similar site, he doesn't get downvoted. Three in the same thread without an informative comparison, he gets downvoted.
-1? Really? The hardware looks inferior to the Motorola Xoom. The Toshiba has that awkward chrome and has hardware buttons when Honeycomb is eliminating them or making them redundant. I guess others are just uh super into Toshiba?