BlackBerry PlayBook demoed live at Adobe MAX

the playbook launches in a couple of months (eary 2011) and my guess is they don’t want to make a firm date public and give Apple the chance to upstage them which they certainly will try to do. Also the price will be based on any leverage they can secure with their carriers which I am sure they are still negotiating. RIM has not denied the price points in the same range as all the other tablet devices, and those prices have been fluctuating lately as carriers offer reduced prices on the units in exchange for long term contract deals.

I don’t think Apple will try to upstage RIM on this device. They have done a pretty good job with the I-pad (not great, good). The only time I’ve really seen Job’s sweat and get nervous is earlier this year when the I-phone 4 was getting all that bad press about reception. Other than that he’s pretty arrogant about his products.
I do, however think this is (based on early reports and this video) a more functional tablet than the I-pad. Front and rear camera’s, flash support, etc. Businesses will eat this up for their heavy blackberry users who want a bigger screen and keyboard, video conferencing capabilities, and seamless syncing with BB desktop manager and their hand held BB.
I think even a regular consumer who digs (or doesn’t) BB will love this as well.

Yea i hear that a lot from new unreleased blackberry reviews. Too bad they never deliever.

I hope RIM makes it work and the Playbook will be popular regardless how good or bad the overall user experience is. I think half screen BB power users are going to eat this up. But the fact that the entire UI is flash seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

What? So, RIM should do what’s good for Apple?

If they can freeze the market (read: keeping people from buying iPads) then they should absolutely do it. It’s not like Apple is going to let up on their competitors.

As a consumer, tell me when I can expect the product already and at what cost. They are already doing what is good for Apple, coming to the party a year late. Companies need to quit concerning themselves with having a similar product and really create that leapfrog product.

Can RIM gain tablet sales with this product? Absolutely they can. Will they? Who knows, if people are willing to spend $600-$700 on a 7″ Android tablet surely those same sorts will consider a BB alternative.

Apple has the advantage because they bring products to market and then everyone else follows. Go ahead with the fanboy comments but it doesn’t change that that is a true statement. This is why Apple is the only competitor to Apple, no one else builds the leapfrog product, they always build the “me too” products.

What product had apple provided us with that is innovative? Touch screen smartphone with its own functioning OS? Not first. A tablet? Nope not first there either. I mean if innovation is your leg to stand on try a different company

@ Justme,

You are kidding right? Apple, Sharp and Palm started this tablet stuff back in the mid 1990′s. Although, technically they only delivered it. Alan Kay had this concept 30-40 years ago. Name me a company that was doing multi-touch anything before Apple (with the success).

You are going to name me a company that sold 7 million tablets (in it’s first six months) before Apple did right? You are going to name me a company that sold 100 million multitouch smartphone with vertically integrated hardware and software before Apple right?

Apple takes years to develop the right product. They market it and the products typically outsell everything before it. Then other companies build the me too products.

Now, name me a product class (that Apple competes in) that Apple either didn’t have first or that Apple didn’t immediately dominate ( meaning everyone followed their lead) after they released the product(s).

@Justme
You’re confusing ‘invented’ or ‘first to market’ with ‘innovative’, like almost everyone who tries to explain how Apple isn’t ‘innovative’. Meanwhile, they are the first to popularize about every piece of technology they bring to market, the first to make it useful for everyone, the first to make big bucks off of it, and a year later everyone is following them. You can keep splitting hairs about what ‘innovative’ means according to the dictionary, I’ll just stick with ‘innovative’ as meaning: ‘creating or applying new or existing technologies in ways that provide added value for consumers that was previously not available or inaccessible to the mass market’.

Using that definition Apple was pretty innovative in the smartphone, tablet, all-in-one, PMP and online music sales markets, and in the way many of their products are designed and built (used materials and construction).

It’s all about form factor. This is made to hold in one hand. An iPad is bigger and heavier and requires two hands. A laptop requires a flat surface.

Are you serious? The iPad is what, half a pound heavier? You are kidding right? Do a couple push ups every once in a while and things will be okay.

Dude he wasn’t talking about WEIGHT he was talking about size … no matter how many pushups you do in your adult life your hands are not gonna get larger span – maybe thicker with more muscle but not shear size and span.

we’re talking about holding and manipulation with 1 hand while standing, being mobile not sitting on a couch like a potato or vegetable.

How are you going to use this with one hand and use it at the same time? No matter what the size is, you need 2 hands to operate a tablet. I can’t even use my phone propertly with one hand.

Apparently, you can’t use it propertly with two hands either.

big words from a little man

Which btw was most likely due to the defective antennae design than to the WIFIs. But Jobs is a master at deflection.

Sorry, but nothing about that demo appeared to be sloppy to me. Go drink some hatorade, hater.

The youtube video at the end seemed pretty choppy to me in fact.

What took years to develop was the iPad – as admitted by Jobs, they started that project before the iPhone.

QNX was only purchased a couple months ago. And I suspect BB only started the playbook R&D after the iPad was introduced.

At least you got that last sentence correct:

“And I suspect BB only started the playbook R&D after the iPad was introduced.”

No leapfrog product, no success.

Hmmm.
RIM vs Apple [tablets]:
Cortex A9 vs Cortex A8 [multiple cores vs 1cpu]
Semetric multi-processing vs single code
sharing of data and API’s securely vs sandbox joke since stability doesn’t exist outside each apps own sandbox.
Don’t release until developers come on board for new adventure vs established developers moving from desktop to mobile platform.

looks like a leap frog device to me along with a platform with legs EVEN without built in data radio and cellular capabilities.

lol no kidding, photo viewer, power point and internet open while watching HD movies… iOS could only dream of this kind of multi-tasking. Don’t work iPad owners, Steve Jobs will come up with a reason why multi-tasking is bad so you can continue to think Apple makes good products. Remember its not the phone that cant make calls, its you.

I’ve had multitasking like that on my iPad since 3 months back, and on my iPhone since almost a year. Not that I actually use it because you don’t need it for any of the things you mentioned, starting or resuming applications is instanteneous. But anyway, iOS 4 for iPhone already has this, just like the beta for iPad, so ‘iOS can only dream of this kind of multi-tasking’ doesn’t make any sense at all. Just like the stupid old ‘the iPhone 4 can’t make calls uhuh uhuh’ by the way.

If that’s the best you can come up with you’re not even a fanboy of any kind, just a stupid tool.

Yea let us know how running 2 or 3 third party apps at the same time goes for you.