RIM defends PlayBook as more execs bail

RIM job?

The problem with RIM and the Playbook is that they never explained why they were making it, idiots. They laughed at the iPad and then said "we will make one as well", idiot's. That just told every one "while we are laughing, we think it's so good we will do a copy so go buy the original", idiots. They should have just made an App for it and if Apple said anything then say "fuck you Apple, we will sell it to our customers and they can install it themselves", idiots. So now, over half a billion in the hole, they just look like idiots. The fact that Amazon can get an almost same device built by the same ODM with a working e-mail just makes them seem like, well total idiots.

Of course RIM are committed to the playbook... Most of the other tablet manufacturers have a day job which actually earns them money: HP can dump their tablet platform because it's pretty irrelevant to them. Samsung and Motorola could similarly walk away without regret.

RIM need a tablet because it's too close to their core business NOT to have a tablet. It should have been easy for them to make a "serious" tablet that hooked into their well established eco-system (don't forget RIM is still massively profitable despite the the bad press). So far they've failed because they tried to make an iPad, not a Blackberry.

If they don't get a tablet which works great with their phones, then people will buy iPads, and then switch to iPhones because they don't like being split across platforms, and there'll be no more RIM. Apple are just waking up to the idea (with iCloud) that your phone and tablet should work TOGETHER. RIM should know this already.

If they get it right, there's a huge market for a Blackberry Tablet (though perhaps not a playbook). If they get it wrong then they have to keep at it until they run out of money.

Kindle Fire

I might buy one (Kindle Fire that is), I like Amazon.

I would've bought the HP Touchpad for £89 with a song in my heart.

I have a first gen ipad.

But I wouldn't buy a playbook for 50 quid.

Here we go again with incompetent corporate mismanagement. :(

No wonder some are leaving, the way RIM are going. Its abundantly clear after reading that Insiders article, (which I've just seen) where the problems are in RIM and that, after also reading about RIM loosing more than 2,000 jobs just a few months ago, it sadly sounds like RIM are another corporate headless chicken like HP and Nokia. The people who are running the company are not listening to their lowly employees.

i.e. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/rim_staffer_letter/

Its the same pattern time and time again. Companies like this have talented staff, but their arrogant closed minded management block the staff doing what the staff know needs to be done to create a great product.

But in these difficult economic times, that failure to listen to staff (when their competitors are listening to their staff) places their company at a clear competitive disadvantage. So its no wonder their share price is now about just 1/3 of what it was 6 months ago.

I was just saying a month ago, 2011 has already been the year HP and Nokia both shot themselves in the foot. So sadly even with just HP and Nokia, it was already shaping up to be a landmark year for incompetent corporate mismanagement in the tech industry. (So the year we lost WebOS & Symbian). But now, after reading all this about RIM as well, I hope they don't make it a hat-trick, but the way their incompetent management are going, if they don't listen to their staff and soon, and up their game, then sadly it looks like they will be next. :(

The HP TouchPad is at least usable

Whereas I wouldn't touch a PlayBook with a shit-covered stylus even if I got it free.