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He's doing a little reality distortion of his own here. Not a single RIM device on the market supports Flash 10 including the new BB Torch. It's a bit strange t
by jsz0 16y ago
He's doing a little reality distortion of his own here. Not a single RIM device on the market supports Flash 10 including the new BB Torch. It's a bit strange to call out a competitor for lacking something you also do not have. He's dangerously close to suggesting you go buy an Android phone instead.
- gecko 16y ago"Dangerously close"? I think he just did. Well, in fairness, he might've told me to buy the new Samsung tablet or a Palm Pre 2. Just...not a BlackBerry.
- sprout 16y agoHe didn't say RIM has any of those things. He just said that he's not going to pretend they're unimportant or even actively bad choices just because he hasn't implemented them (which is precisely what Apple does, and why I think they rightly deserve criticism for distorting reality.) It's one thing to say that they made some trade offs in designing the iPad, and the screen size is clearly a good choice. It's another thing to claim that 7" screens are categorically a bad design choice, which is just absurd.
- tjogin 16y agoIf Flash on a mobile device is important, why haven't they implemented that themselves? Actions speak louder than words.
- potatolicious 16y agoTo be fair, what he could be saying is that the BlackBerry (and iOS) internet experience sucks right now, and he's trying to fix that with the Playbook. On the other hand, looking at the progress of Flash on mobiles (read: lack thereof, and the completely pathetic state it's in), it's pretty bloody unlikely that RIM will be fielding anything that isn't horrifyingly broken by the time the Playbook launches. So, at best, Jim Balsillie will be launching a painfully, horribly broken version of the "real internet experience".