> Motorola will reportedly reduce orders for its Xoom tablet starting in the second quarter of 2011, and no orders are apparently scheduled past June, suggesting a Xoom successor and newer competitor to Apple’s iPad 2 is already in the works. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/22/motorola_not_planning_orders_for_ipad_competing_xoom_past_june_report.html)And so yet another tablet described by many pundits as “the first real competitor to the iPad” has flopped. More and more evidence is stacking up…

> The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty > … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it > was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by > Motorola. via [instapaper.com](http://www.instapaper.com/go/135636816/text)From Andy Ihnatko, of course.…

> Honeycomb is the first version of Android designed for tablets and is eagerly anticipated. Motorola’s Xoom tablet will launch on Thursday as the first to run the software, but initial versions won’t come with Flash support. Verizon, which is putting the device on sale, previously said Flash would be available in “spring 2011.” > > The vague time reference had people fearing Flash wouldn’t be available until the end of the season, but a posting on Adobe’s blog points to a slightly earlier release. > > “Consumers are clearly asking…