Analyst pegs PlayBook opening day sales at 45,000

Called the Fandroid and iPhonies.

While I’d love to agree with you here… I personally can’t pick and choose. It’s another analyst pulling more numbers out of his ass, the same as the ones for day 1 ipad2 sales (we see how wildly incorrect those numbers have proved) and xoom sales (no proof yet, but seriously – when have these idiots managed to get even one right? )

Analysts make their own headlines and blogs like this one (not to mention some reputable news sources) pick those headlines up and tout them as news.

You’re reading wrong.

25,000 through pre-order + 20,000 on day one = 45,000 sold on launch day.

Yes, small compared to iPad, but MORE than the Xoom and Galaxy Tab.

How many people were saying that all Android tabs would destroy it?

Don’t forget there was once a time when RIMs phone sales also trumped the iPhone.

Who knows what the future holds.

Simple, the Galaxy Tab is a piece of shit running an phone OS. The PlayBook is not.

More appls and more functionality are just around the corner.

Really? I thought the screen was amazing.

The screen has a higher pixel density than the iPad’s o.o
It has a higher resolution, too. o.o
You cant really get any better.

Then I’d say you a) didn’t actually get one in the first place or b) have a defective unit. Having one myself, the screen quality for text is excellent. The bridge browser is as fast as your 3G connection ( up to 2Mbit or so, anyway) — so if you have a crappy signal, it’s not going to give you fast page loads. At work, the bridge browser sucks – because AT&T gives a crappy signal here. In many other places I’ve tried, there’s no performance issue at all (w/ 5-bar 3G reception).

Apple did it in like 8 mins. And in the US alone. Never mind store sales.

No one – not even Mike Lazardius – expected it to sell as well as the iPad. A better comparison would be the Tab or the Xoom.

err, the amount of bombast stating that ‘people don’t want to be told how to surf the web’

and ‘we gots tonnage of apps’

and ‘ours is the best mobile web experience’

and you getting less than 5% of the market, that your device is ‘pre-destined’ to succeed in?

This company as 2 CEOs and 3 COOs…. you’d think with all that leadership they’d be mopping up over a company that has a CEO on sick leave, and ‘subpar’ product that’s long on the spec tooth, and doesn’t have flash or HDMI out. Guess Specs are not all they are cracked up to be.

at 20K a day after a year of build up… Apple is selling 500K a day (5 million over 90 days, post holiday, and with a assembly switch over to a new model).

Let’s see how ‘excited’ they are when BB phone sales approach 5% of the phone market. or BES is now selling to only 5% of the Fortune 1000.

Or is this to set up for their year over year results (we sold 200% more Playbooks this quarter than last. the Ipad is slipping with only 95% growth).

5% ain’t Shee-at.

iPad sales have slipped 30% since January. It’s hard when you start at the top of an industry (tablet in this case), you only have one direction to go…

feldman,

30% drop off a holiday quarter, again, with at least the whole world knowing there was a new hardware platform coming in at the end of the quarter. Even then, they sold every device they made. Some would say that’s market planning genius.

As apple has stated, the reason for that drop is pretty straight forward. The shut down iPad1 construction and ramped iPad2 production as fast as they could, unfortunately, that pretty much lost 2-3 weeks of pipeline (they aim for 4-8weeks of inventory available), and they stated they were ‘well below their planned pipeline stockpiles’).

Now that could be Japan, could be normal seasonality (jan-march is always a valley for i* sales for consumer[q1 sales peak] and corporate sales[q3 sales peak], could be gas prices.

However, the fact that Apple is selling every iPad they are making, effectively tells me that their 50K boxes a day will go back to 80K. (sorry for the typo above). What certainty that after the pent up demand, Playbook will drive to 40K a day…

I’ll tell you way. You don’t release what one could consider a companion device to an already mundane smartphone and expect it to prove competitive in the tablet market. That’s preposterous. This device is will only, if at all successful, keep those that are satisfied with their BlackBerry within RIM’s ecosystem. This will not attract a gang of new customers. Period. No ones going to pick a PlayBook, do some light web browsing, watch a pre-loaded video, and then think to themselves, “This is nice, I think I might buy a Bold now.”

Because, at this point it doesn’t make sense to have one w/o the other, whereas you have that option with every other tablet on the market. Also, the PlayBook user experience is completely different from that of a Bold, or a Curve, or a Storm etc.
The Tab functions much like the Galaxy S, and the iPad functions much like the iPhone. If someone who doesn’t own a BB were to toy around with a PlayBook and think, “Oh, this is pretty solid” and then pick up a Bold for the first time, they’d be highly disappointed. Just some food for thought.

You’re both correct and incorrect.

The problem is that RIM decided to push the tablet before their new lineup of phones (coming in a couple months), which will mesh with the PlayBook very nicely. This is unfortunate, as you say, it can cause confusion in the market now that there are two OS’s running side by side, however, this is only temporary, and soon the benefits will become more prevalent when we see Phone OS6.1.

I’m quite certain 6.1 won’t be QNX-based. Once all of their devices are sporting QNX-based operating systems I’ll consider RIM relevant again.
But I agree, RIM should’ve kept this tablet business in the closet for a little while longer.

I don’t think QNX is coming on the phones till 2012. 6.1 is a refresh of the old BB OS, 7.0 is QNX.

That’s stupid. And Honeycomb isn’t on phones so try and find me an example of a phone-sized Xoom please. When Apple revealed the iPad I was disappointed. It was just a big ipod touch. I expected them to create a new operating system to take advantage of the new space and processing power they had. And that’s exactly what RIM did.

“How is the email?”

My gmail on the Playbook is awesome!

I use web based email on my iMac as well. Have for years.

Why with the multitude of devices people are using to access their email would you want to use anything but a web based email client?

Thanks for asking though.

Like how it takes multiple touches to get a single checkbox selected? Sounds awesome!

From the thisismynext review:
“I found myself tapping and re-tapping on UI elements and web navigation with no result. In web apps like Gmail (which RIM provides a direct link to on the homescreen), I couldn’t get to certain message checkboxes even after double-digit attempts. Whether this is the overall UI acting buggy or an issue with the way the browser is interpreting touches is unclear, but it’s that sort of behavior which makes the product feel unfinished.”

This guy.

i think the device is great! love it!

ahh, it was hard to tell what you meant from your post. i agree the marketing wasnt well played

Only difference, more so in the galaxy tabs case then the Xoom, RIM has been hawking this device for over 6 months.