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RIM co-CEO: BlackBerry PlayBook price cuts coming
- jeffehobbs 15y agoHow dumb is this guy? He's just killed all sales from "now" until "then".
- roc 15y agoWhat sales?
- 0x12 15y agoIt's one step up from the Osborne strategy.
- tick80 15y agoHP did a similar thing. If I remember correctly, people who purchased between "now" and "then" got a refund for the rebate... whether RIM do that is another matter.
- lurch_mojoff 15y agoThe question is how many people will buy a PlayBook now on the off chance they’ll get a rebate at some future point. Not that many I reckon.
- raganwald 15y agoDear Jim: http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-jim http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-jim
- teyc 15y agoI went to the shops to have a look at the various non Apple slates. All of them were badly presented. The applications were dull, the email client wouldn't start because it needed an account, the marketplace was blocked because you have to put in a credit card. The playbook itself was stuck in a air hockey game, but I pressed every button and couldn't exit it. No wonder Apple is eating every one's lunch by just showing up.
- rahoulb 15y agoThat's why Apple started the Apple Stores in the first place - all those years ago, Macs used to get the same treatment so they needed somewhere to show them off.
- teyc 15y agoeven resellers have nice standard apple desks to present Apple products. The iPads have range of demo applications pre-installed to showcase what it is capable of. Meanwhile, Honeycomb tablets just feel like a chunk of metal.
- teyc 15y agoIncidentally, I went over to Myer's in Australia to have a look at the Mac line up. Someone in their wisdom has decided that every iMac, MBP and Air needs to play Justin Bieber's music video at the loudest volume. Looped. This is how Apple can be defeated. MS needs to hire someone to fly around the world and replicate this across all Apple demo units.
- sharmajai 15y agoThat is because playbook requires a swipe up from the bottom bezel to bring up app list where you can close it. This is due to the ingenious functioning bezel it has, which removes the need for that lingering bottom bar as in android.
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- efalcao 15y ago"co-CEO" ....makes me lul everytime
- muyuu 15y agoNow if he went ahead and fucking let me download the Native Development Kit, that'd be greeeat. Seriously, they ask for your first born child and your best excuses in order to download their beta NDK so you can develop something??
- codedivine 15y agoI also applied for the beta NDK a few weeks ago and got no response even though the page said they will get back in 2 business days or something.
- tlack 15y agoTheir sluggishness in providing these key bits of gear is really infuriating me. How can they be so timely about shipping hardware but so slow about just giving us a damn SDK!?
- jmount 15y agoYou should never pre-announce price cuts. Just make the price cut, otherwise you are just telling people to put off their possible purchase.
- digamber_kamat 15y agoyes. I dont understand why RIM keeps doing it with all their products. They announce QNX phones next year but launch OS 7 phones this year. The playbook was announced much before the scheduled launch but came much later than promised. I remember RIM promised a software update to playbook but it is yet to see the light of the day. I am 100% sure that this price cut will not come anytime soon. Also, you can also be sure that the QNX phones will not come in 2011 end as promised but either they will appear on 2013 or they will hurriedly put together a lousy piece of junk and present it before you. Losers!
- medinism 15y agoPlayBook is like the other tablets in the market except that it sucks. It is beyond me why did RIM relies so heavily on the operators for marketing and distribution. The PlayBook is a clear example how this arrangement has screwed up their product design