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RIM Drops Playbook Price By 66%

Posted by timothy on from the harsh-logic dept.

YokimaSun writes "Following on from the news that RIM's partner was pulling the plug on its BlackBerry phones, RIM announced it was discontinuing the 16GB version of its playbook, PC Gaming News are reporting that the PlayBook is being discounted down by as much as 66% which is adding to the demise of RIM's attempt at the tablet market. Can anything stop the all conquering iPad?"

2 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. Still not interested by Chas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The Playbook is essentially useless to anyone who doesn't own a Crackberry, since the Playbook requires a Blackberry phone for network connectivity.

    As someone else said, they could be GIVING these away and I'd still have no interest.

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    THANK GOD!!!
  2. No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The problem is that only Apple fanbois have any desire to purchase giant smart-phones that cannot make calls at such an absurd price-point. A fool and his money, and all that... just so happens that these are brand-loyal fools. The only way you're going to break into that market is to come in at such a lower price as to make your product attractive to the non-Apple crowd, which has precious few incentives to even consider your product to begin with.