> the point is that RIM shouldn’t announce a device if it isn’t done "Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products Pretenders don’t quite understand th

> the point is that RIM shouldn’t announce a device if it isn’t done "Real artists ship, dabblers create concept products Pretenders don’t quite understand that design is born of constraints. Real-life constraints, be they tangible or cognitive... Concept products are like essays, musings in 3D. They are incomplete promises. Shipping products, by contrast, are brutally honest deliveries. You get what’s delivered. They live and die by their own design constraints. To the extent they are successful, they do advance the art and science of design and manufacturing by exposing the balance between fantasy and capability." http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/ http://counternotions.com/2008/08/12/concept-products/