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RIM PlayBook Email App Nowhere In Sight
judgecorp writes "RIM has delayed the 2.0 release of its tablet's Playbook OS until 2012, and admitted it won't have the BlackBerry email app. PlayBook users will only be able to do BlackBerry email on their tablets by linking with a BlackBerry phone, for the foreseeable future."
So, a Blackberry without email? Seriously?
"They're F*cked, eh"
I bought my playbook on the premise I'd be able to actually fucking USE it for something soon.
So now it will continue to sit on my desk ignored and unused.
Anyone wanna buy a playbook?
(I know, hell of a sales pitch.)
And they provide a link to the official blog, where it clearly states that the delay is for BlackBerry Messenger, *not* the enterprise email app. They simply don't mention anything about enterprise email there at all.
Who is John Galt?
Dude, there are tons of things you can do with a Playbook without an attached Blackberry. It makes an excellent oversized coaster or underside plate. A little string and some glue and it makes a nice hat. If you have a cat or very small dog it can be used for a nice kittie/doggie door. It also works as a mediocre paperweight, a very small and crappy snowboard, an extremely shallow ashtray, or a top quality piece of garbage. Seriously, I can barely even think of anything you can't do with a Playbook.
Except for tablet computing. It doesn't do that.
RIM keeps blah blahing about having billions in revenue. Revenue is great but profits are the only thing that matter in the end. RIM is probably one quarter away from being profitless. Then they will have to cut to the bone.
The best laugh I had was where they got this skateboarder type who was developing some "Rad" app for them. This was a baby boomer interpretation of being youthful. They might as well had they guy developing from on top of a surfboard.
RIM is following in the footsteps of Novell, and Word Perfect. Once they lost growth and market domination the end came far more quickly than you would have thought.
What I am waiting for is this moment when they realize that their numbers are so awful that they will be instantly ruined. This might be when they pull a Nortel and start cooking the books. Minimally I predict they will start noodling the books to the maximum allowed by the loosest of accounting standards. Hiding costs and somehow booking future revenues now.
"They're hosed"
Wearing pants should always be optional.
Not having certain features at release is not the same as releasing a product supposed to have (and promised to have) certain features. "It didn't have cut and paste but they didn't promise it" vs "It will have BBM and email and contacts but not right now . . . oh never mind about BBM."
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
RIMs official blog post on their website that is linked to states "bring our...email integration capabilities to the tablet category." Only BBM is being delayed with no view in sight. http://blogs.blackberry.com/2011/10/blackberry-playbook-2-update/
The arrival of Playbook OS 2.0 has been put off till February 2012, according to a blog post, which also revealed that the new version will not contain the long-awaited BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application, which would allow Playbook users to access BlackBerry email without hooking up to a BlackBerry phone.
Whoever wrote this article doesn't understand the difference between BBM and email. RIM has said that BBM is delayed out of the Feb. release and has said nothing about email. BBM and email are two different things.
The linked site states "the new version will not contain the long-awaited BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application, which would allow Playbook users to access BlackBerry email without hooking up to a BlackBerry phone." That isn't what BlackBerry Messenger does, the linked site is full of crap and has no clue what they're talking about. OS 2.0 will have email, but no BBM. Read the press release. http://blogs.blackberry.com/2011/10/blackberry-playbook-2-update/
What you're saying is that PlayBook didn't have email, but it could piggyback on another device that did - but only if it was a BB smartphone. In other words, PlayBook didn't have email unless you purchased a BB smartphone to match. Since BB smartphones are kinda crappy for most usage scenarios of the kind of people who buy tablets in the first place, that's effectively the same as not having it - which is exactly how the market took it.
Who cares about rendering the page in 10ms instead of 20ms, when usability is crap?
I must have missed the part where the PlayBook was incomplete. It had everything they indented and promised at the time it was released.
What part of it was promised to have email and BBM and contacts by summer 2011 is not clear?
If you don’t have a BlackBerry phone, you’re out of luck until summer, when RIM says a future software update will bring native clients to the PlayBook.
And then summer 2011 came and went. Now the functionality will be delayed all the way back to 2012. And BBM will not be part of that update. So RIM promised features that are supposed to be part of the tablet. But has not delivered and one feature will not be delivered nearly 9 months if it is ever delivered.
RIM promoted the PlayBook as "Your BlackBerry, Amplified". A BB phone is, consequently, a key part of the PlayBook experience.
So a PlayBook is useless without a BB phone? Please. How can RIMM position the PlayBook as the competitor to Android and iPad and then say it has to be tethered. You are in serious denial.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
"As for the PlayBook market -- you do realize it was marketed to BlackBerry users. The tagline was "Your BlackBerry, Amplified" It was made very clear that the PlayBook was designed to work in tandem with a BlackBerry phone."
Uggg. This is precisely why it was doomed. The BB market is *shrinking*, so why would you possibly tie it in?!
I don't have a BB, so I don't buy a PB. This is a marketing plan? Or a failure plan?
Did we learn nothing from the Unix Wars? Tie-in kills companies. Customers *hate* it. If anything is going to bring down Apple, it's this.