Will BB Playbook survive?

[Rottie]

I heard HP axed TouchPad so I am sure nobody will buy TouchPad next month Black Friday. So I dunno about how good is Playbook....There is not much talk about PlayBook lately so BB might kill Playbook?

 

[mammador]

With the iPad and to a lesser extent the Galaxy Tab selling well, perhaps RIM may cease production on it.

Their general marketing on it has been BS though. Those "Flash" adverts lol.. yes, the iPad has no Flash, but evidently nobody gives a shit. How can they if the iPad sells in the millions? RIM is on its last knees IMO. They are releasing new phones soon, but if these don't sell well, then the last resort option is to jump on the Android bandwagon, or even strike up a deal with Apple for iOS. Now that Jobs is dead, Cook may accede to it, who knows?

 

[shortylickens]

Supposedly they are working on a Playbook 2 but they could kill that at any moment.

 

[Spoooon]

With the iPad and to a lesser extent the Galaxy Tab selling well, perhaps RIM may cease production on it.

Their general marketing on it has been BS though. Those "Flash" adverts lol.. yes, the iPad has no Flash, but evidently nobody gives a shit. How can they if the iPad sells in the millions? RIM is on its last knees IMO. They are releasing new phones soon, but if these don't sell well, then the last resort option is to jump on the Android bandwagon, or even strike up a deal with Apple for iOS. Now that Jobs is dead, Cook may accede to it, who knows?

What's funny to me about the flash ones are that, the people that care about it already know about it. No need to advertise.

As far as TouchPads... if there are somehow some to be found on Black Friday, I want 2. CM7 Alpha2 is as close to a beta as an alpha can be.

 

[Pliablemoose]

They just announced a 3 for 2 deal for enterprise customers...

http://crackberry.com/rim-offers-buy-2-get-1-free-deal-playbook-business-customers

 

[Oyeve]

Their flash adverts are aimed at people who know nothing about flash but will only see it as something the ipad doesn't have. In other word idiots as flash is useless.

 

[mammador]

True, but are those adverts having any effect? The iPad 2 is still selling in a big way, so nobody really gives a crap about the issue.

 

[Deeko]

They certainly didn't help its chances by delayed OS 2.0 until February, that's for sure. That update was originally promised for this summer.

 

[theeedude]

Their flash adverts are aimed at people who know nothing about flash but will only see it as something the ipad doesn't have. In other word idiots as flash is useless.

Is this a joke? I use Flash all the time on the Touchpad.

 

[Imp]

Thinking about pawning my 16Gb one for $300. I could still use an e-reader and the cameras are nice though.

 

[runawayprisoner]

True, but are those adverts having any effect? The iPad 2 is still selling in a big way, so nobody really gives a crap about the issue.

It's not really an issue because Flash content providers move to HTML5 for the iPad... There are only a handful that haven't converted at this point.

Meanwhile, Mac, Windows, Android, and any other platform get served poorly optimized Flash contents...

 

[shortylickens]

It's not really an issue because Flash content providers move to HTML5 for the iPad... There are only a handful that haven't converted at this point.

Meanwhile, Mac, Windows, Android, and any other platform get served poorly optimized Flash contents...

I'd like to think the move to mobile platforms has helped drive home the point Flash really does suck.

 

[Bateluer]

Technically, the Playbook was dead before it hit the market. Overpriced, shipped before it was ready, under-supported, minimal developer support, and no apps. Priced the same as the iPad, the thing was a guaranteed failure right from the gate.

 

[Bateluer]

Meanwhile, Mac, Windows, Android, and any other platform get served poorly optimized Flash contents...

Come again? Multiple browsers on all those platforms support HTML5 just fine.

 

[runawayprisoner]

Come again? Multiple browsers on all those platforms support HTML5 just fine.

But the problem is that HTML5 content is only served natively to iPad and iPhone devices. To see those content in their HTML5 form, you have to spoof the browsers on those platforms to the iPad or iPhone user agent, and even then, due to lack of QuickTime, not all of them will work, and many of them will still revert back to Flash form.

That's how iPad keeps its Godly battery life. Because all other platforms are fed unoptimized streams whereas the iPad is spoon-fed something that requires minimal effort on the iPad's side to play back.