Not sure how much I can share without giving myself away but... As an active participant in Playbook's entire development from (near) start to end, there were

Not sure how much I can share without giving myself away but... As an active participant in Playbook's entire development from (near) start to end, there were multiple reasons. They weren't good reasons (most of my colleagues had, eh, concerns which got override,) but they somewhat made sense. What happened was that multiple teams (internal and external) screwed up, so much so that the thing's internal was completely redesigned half way through development ie. Switched to a completely different SoC . As another poster noted, their power supplies were great. I still have a couple left around my house. They had to be great partly because of a design oversight....