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[Zzoram]

From what I'm reading its an enterprise tablet.

The reason it currently requires a Blackberry to use the email app is due to the Enterprise BES server pin system. The security tied email to 1 device pin so they couldn't share the same login on 2 devices. That's why the PlayBook and all future phones require you to create a Blackberry ID. They're going to switch to an account based system and phase out the pin system so people can have multiple devices getting pushed the same corporate mail/schedules/conference calls. It's also why BBM will be able to open up to other platforms, by dropping the pin requirement.

You can still access other email through the browser. When they complete the BES server upgrades to support Blackberry ID (not an easy task given how slow corporations move with IT) they'll update to unlock the email and calendar apps for use without bridging.

As for the bridge pairing with Blackberry phones, the fact that email and calendar isn't stored on the PlayBook means the moment you disconnect the data will disappear from the PlayBook. For now this is good for security since it means people in a business can share a corporate pool of Playbooks and bridge as desired without worrying that someone else will be able to read their email or see their schedule. It also means when one is inevitably lost no sensitive data will be on it.

PlayBook can wifi tether to any smartphone of any brand that can wifi tether. Bridge is just device pairing, it doesn't share Internet. You can tether and bridge at the same time.

 

[Burger]

So sell millions of units in enterprise, and then go forth and conquer the consumer market?

Sounds fucking backwards if you ask me.

 

[Zzoram]

So sell millions of units in enterprise, and then go forth and conquer the consumer market?

Sounds fucking backwards if you ask me.

Is it though? All the Android tablets are charging at iPad head on and meeting minimal success. Maybe a different strategy isn't a bad idea.

 

[Burger]

Is it though? All the Android tablets are charging at iPad head on and meeting minimal success. Maybe a different strategy isn't a bad idea.

Minimal success? I would say 'tanking' would be a better description.

If the Playbook really is targeted at the enterprise market (I don't believe it is) it will be interesting to see how they foster a large an active app development community with such a limited customer base in terms of diversity and interests.

 

[btkadams]

So sell millions of units in enterprise, and then go forth and conquer the consumer market?

Sounds fucking backwards if you ask me.

???? rim has always been a leader in the business market rather than consumer. how does it seem backwards to focus on their enterprise stuff and then consumer?

 

[DopeyFish]

Playbook is a true consumer tablet that is pretending to be an enterprise one

Im grabbing one because of the ridiculously awesome multitasking it has and its form factor(multitasking is really just for IM in my eyes really)

I don't mean it as a slant to iPad, I have one and love it but it's not portable enough and what actually put me over the edge for the playbook was iPhone getting wifi tethering

Sure, from the videos the experience isn't exactly perfect and they've certainly misstepped a couple places but to be honest the playbook looks like the first true serious contender to iPad - the interface even with it's problems looks fantastic. Bezel navigation? Pure brute force processing power? Hell yes.

People can tout app support all they want but I find outside of e ridiculous amount of wasted space, I can likely find what I need or want on other platforms... As long as I get a slingplayer app, a beejive app,a VNC app and a good radio app (like ootunes on iPhone) then I have everything I need.

Sure for email and whatever I'm willing to wait because I'm really just using it as a supplement portable device to my iPhone which can't offer everything I want exactly but still has the core functions. My iPad will still be my home tablet too. Someone from RIM said it best that the iPad is an evening / weekend tablet. I don't see the portability in an iPad because it's far too heavy and bulky - I bought jackets just to make it portable to take everywhere (scotttevests) but still the iPad was always bothering me in the pocket. I don't want to use bags or anything when I go somewhere.

I have never even owned a blackberry either. I've had a grand total of like 5-10 minutes use out of them and I don't like them, but the playbook attracts me because of the work they've done and the portability. Again, it's not perfect, but for what I want it for... It is. Or at least appears to be

I dunno I'm just kinda pissed off with the amount of backlash there is for this device. People/press tend to forget about the shit apple does or missteps on and they forgive them but when rim has a minor setback... It's all doom and gloom. Disgusting.

 

[Zzoram]

Minimal success? I would say 'tanking' would be a better description.

If the Playbook really is targeted at the enterprise market (I don't believe it is) it will be interesting to see how they foster a large an active app development community with such a limited customer base in terms of diversity and interests.

Well the benefit of their enterprise first target is they can do better than the Android tablets. They can sell much better, and once they have that sizable install base it'll be easier to lure developers. Also actually selling well to enterprise would make it the first non-iPad tablet not to have terrible sales news reports all the time creating negativity. Additionally, going for 7" instead of the iPad 10" like most Android tablets means it can avoid some of the competitive pressures and differentiate itself more.

RIMs target market and 7" size PlayBook basically means it's as far from the iPad as they can be while still being a tablet. This is probably smart since consumers see all these Android tablets as just being worse iPads (true or not). Playbook *might* be able to create a more positive identity by succeeding somewhere the iPad hasn't dominated yet. They can then use that momentum to appeal to consumers.

People forget that Androids success has basically come down to iPhone being unavailable on Sprint, Tmobile and Verizon. People who wanted an iPhone but not AT&T for whatever reason (service, availability) bought Android. Having that somewhat safer niche to build itself up before colliding with iPhone head on helped Android a ton. Since iPad 2 is everywhere, RIM has to go corporate to find it's safe place to build a foundation. The Android tablets don't have the benefit of avoiding direct competition like they avoided the iPhone for years, and the result is that the Android tablets have been getting pummeled. The Galaxy Tab being garbage and leading the way has harmed the Android tablet market greatly. Xoom pricing gave it another critical blow. There is no room for those types of missteps when competing directly with Apple.

 

[Blackhead]

^^^
well said. Edit: oops. That's well said to DopeyFish.

Sidenote: RIM's second biggest demographic is teens using Blackberries because they are in love with BBM.

 

[Zzoram]

^^^
well said. Edit: oops. That's well said to DopeyFish.

Sidenote: RIM's second biggest demographic is teens using Blackberries because they are in love with BBM.

Blackberry success has come down to plan pricing. On smartphones you need an unlimited text plan and a data plan. Not so with Blackberry.

Most people realized they don't need a full data plan if they can get email, Facebook and twitter, plus BBM instead of unlimited text, all for a price that's about the same as just unlimited text. These cheap blackberry social plans are all most young people want since they don't need full data to browse websites or stream music since they can just put their music on their phone and teens don't care about reading news articles when they can get the summaries on Facebook.

 

[Burger]

Well the benefit of their enterprise first target is they can do better than the Android tablets. They can sell much better, and once they have that sizable install base it'll be easier to lure developers. Also actually selling well to enterprise would make it the first non-iPad tablet not to have terrible sales news reports all the time creating negativity. Additionally, going for 7" instead of the iPad 10" like most Android tablets means it can avoid some of the competitive pressures and differentiate itself more.

RIMs target market and 7" size PlayBook basically means it's as far from the iPad as they can be while still being a tablet. This is probably smart since consumers see all these Android tablets as just being worse iPads (true or not). Playbook *might* be able to create a more positive identity by succeeding somewhere the iPad hasn't dominated yet. They can then use that momentum to appeal to consumers.

Is that being communicated properly by RIM though? Why are they showing off Need for Speed or whatever on what they keep emphasizing as a enterprise device?

Dopeyfish, while I appreciate the iPad isn't for you, are you really buying a Playbook for the right reasons? After all, bezel navigation and realtime multitasking are all great, but what exactly are you going to be navigating and multitasking? Android apps? Flash games?

 

[Zzoram]

Is that being communicated properly by RIM though? Why are they showing off Need for Speed or whatever on what they keep emphasizing as a enterprise device?

Dopeyfish, while I appreciate the iPad isn't for you, are you really buying a Playbook for the right reasons? After all, bezel navigation and realtime multitasking are all great, but what exactly are you going to be navigating and multitasking? Android apps? Flash games?

Dopey said the extra portability of the 7" is a big factor. Considering that the PlayBook is far better than the galaxy tab and the Android tablets seem dead set on going 10" the PlayBook seems like a good choice.

The bezel navigation is innovation that they get no credit for. If Apple did it first you can bet people would be raving about how awesome it is.

 

[DopeyFish]

Also I did mention instant messaging - IM on iPad/ iPhone is sorta meh when I have to switch apps... Plus being able to get sound notifications while in other apps will be a godsend instead of having to constantly check

And what do you mean android apps or flash games? How about browsing the Internet? Or watching a TV show?

Or maybe doing work?

The thing with bezel navigation is that it's not like iPad where I use the same button that can close apps to multitask... So when I'm working on something really important and the app doesn't have ability to save... Everything can be trashed if I mess up the button press... Yay.

 

[Burger]

Dopey said the extra portability of the 7" is a big factor. Considering that the PlayBook is far better than the galaxy tab and the Android tablets seem dead set on going 10" the PlayBook seems like a good choice.

The bezel navigation is innovation that they get no credit for. If Apple did it first you can bet people would be raving about how awesome it is.

How is it better? Not only is it not on the market, it hasn't been reviewed, and it remains to be seen how this App strategy will play out? Once again, comparing stats and features is a losing game.

Bezel navigation? If Apple did it then it would be on the market, and you could actually talk about how useful it is, instead of having to pretend in your head.

Besides, Apple applied for a patent on a touch sensitive bezel back in 2006, and was granted the patent in Feb 2010, many months before the Playbook was announced. So technically it was Apple's innovation.

 

[Zzoram]

How is it better? Not only is it not on the market, it hasn't been reviewed, and it remains to be seen how this App strategy will play out? Once again, comparing stats and features is a losing game.

Bezel navigation? If Apple did it then it would be on the market, and you could actually talk about how useful it is, instead of having to pretend in your head.

Besides, Apple applied for a patent on a touch sensitive bezel back in 2006, and was granted the patent in Feb 2010, many months before the Playbook was announced. So technically it was Apple's innovation.

The PlayBook is already in 100s of stores for live demos. Many stores already received their shipments for the official release next week. Best Buy and Futureshops have them and Staples does too I think. The demos hit stores on the weekend. If innovation doesn't count on spec sheets an has to be there to touch, it seems RIM did beat Apple to it.

 

[Burger]

The PlayBook is already in 100s of stores for live demos. Many stores already received their shipments for the official release next week. Best Buy and Futureshops have them and Staples does too I think. The demos hit stores on the weekend. If innovation doesn't count on spec sheets an has to be there to touch, it seems RIM did beat Apple to it.

So next week hundreds of CEO's, business teams and IT buyers are going to be lining up to purchase a playbook?

 

[LCfiner]

Or maybe doing work?

The thing with bezel navigation is that it's not like iPad where I use the same button that can close apps to multitask... So when I'm working on something really important and the app doesn't have ability to save... Everything can be trashed if I mess up the button press... Yay.

you don't understand how the button works. pressing it once and going to the home screen or pressing it twice to go to the tray (and then switching the app) does the exact same thing to the app that is running.

exact same thing. it'll freeze it and save state. if you want to write the data to the disk, some apps (like drawing apps) have a save to gallery button you can use.


on a side note, i have lost countless times more work on a "real PC" because of program crashes at work than I ever have on an iPad when I switched applications. Most people in my company consider the software on our "real work" PCs to be incredibly fragile.

 

[Zzoram]

So next week hundreds of CEO's, business teams and IT buyers are going to be lining up to purchase a playbook?

I doubt there will be lines but I'm sure there will be IT department orders. I don't know if they're planning to even run a commercial when it releases but it would make sense to do it. Especially since they've shipped stock to retailers.

I have no idea how it will sell and I never said it would sell amazingly well. I just think I get what they're trying to do by targeting enterprise first, and that it could be a smart move. We will know in a month from now if it's going to outsell the Xoom or not. If it doesn't exceed the 75,000 first month the Xoom did it'll be a huge failure.

 

[Phoenix]

Minimal success? I would say 'tanking' would be a better description.

If the Playbook really is targeted at the enterprise market (I don't believe it is) it will be interesting to see how they foster a large an active app development community with such a limited customer base in terms of diversity and interests.

They've hit on the right approach - get developers to build apps and give them piles of free shit as a reward. Same approach being taken by Google, and the primary reason why Google's conference sold out in less than 4 hours. Developers LOVE free shit, and if all I have to do is build an app of some sort in my free time to get that free shit - deal. If that app happens to attract an audience? Wow... then maybe I'll commit real time to developing for that platform.

That's the strategy they're going for.

 

[Firestorm]

So next week hundreds of CEO's, business teams and IT buyers are going to be lining up to purchase a playbook?

I'm confused. Why would they be doing that next week instead of earlier? Could you please stop talking out of your ass on every point here? I'm also not following why RIM would market their enterprise features to consumers or why reaching enterprise first is so bad.

 

[Burger]

They've hit on the right approach - get developers to build apps and give them piles of free shit as a reward. Same approach being taken by Google, and the primary reason why Google's conference sold out in less than 4 hours. Developers LOVE free shit, and if all I have to do is build an app of some sort in my free time to get that free shit - deal. If that app happens to attract an audience? Wow... then maybe I'll commit real time to developing for that platform.

That's the strategy they're going for.

Microsoft tried the same with Windows Phone 7, even including hard cash as an incentive. Nokia is doing the same thing now with the same platform.

WWDC sold out in 10 hours, has a ticket price of $1600 US and attendees last year got a jacket. Developers love... Apple?

 

[Firestorm]

Microsoft tried the same with Windows Phone 7, even including hard cash as an incentive. Nokia is doing the same thing now with the same platform.

WWDC sold out in 10 hours, has a ticket price of $1600 US and attendees last year got a jacket. Developers love... Apple?

lol do you really think Microsoft, Nokia, RIM, and hell even Google are in the same spot with developers as Apple? You can't use the same strategy as Apple if you're not Apple.

 

[DopeyFish]

you don't understand how the button works. pressing it once and going to the home screen or pressing it twice to go to the tray (and then switching the app) does the exact same thing to the app that is running.

exact same thing. it'll freeze it and save state. if you want to write the data to the disk, some apps (like drawing apps) have a save to gallery button you can use.


on a side note, i have lost countless times more work on a "real PC" because of program crashes at work than I ever have on an iPad when I switched applications. Most people in my company consider the software on our "real work" PCs to be incredibly fragile.

actually i know exactly how the button works, don't question my intelligence.

apps have to be specifically designed for app switching in mind AKA multi-tasking but i have to do a lot of important shit to have to worry about if developers support the fucking standards. - but then again... i thought you knew how that button worked.

it's like you think i'm new to iOS or something? I use my ipad and iphone a combined 15 hours a day

 

[Phoenix]

Microsoft tried the same with Windows Phone 7, even including hard cash as an incentive. Nokia is doing the same thing now with the same platform.

WWDC sold out in 10 hours, has a ticket price of $1600 US and attendees last year got a jacket. Developers love... Apple?

Yep. Because developers make an assload of money from Apple at the moment and there is still all of this "learning something new before any one else" that pays of much better in the Apple world. Microsoft/Nokia, however, really suck at their developer targeting. Unfortunately for them there are a stupifying number of HTML5/Spring/Java developers out there who can hop onto Android or the Playbook without thinking about it. Moving to WIndows Phone 7 (especially in the gaming space) still requires too many compromises.

 

[numble]

actually i know exactly how the button works, don't question my intelligence.

apps have to be specifically designed for app switching in mind AKA multi-tasking but i have to do a lot of important shit to have to worry about if developers support the fucking standards.

it's like you think i'm new to iOS or something? I use my ipad and iphone a combined 15 hours a day

How does messing up a button press trash things?

 

[LCfiner]

actually i know exactly how the button works, don't question my intelligence.

apps have to be specifically designed for app switching in mind AKA multi-tasking but i have to do a lot of important shit to have to worry about if developers support the fucking standards.

it's like you think i'm new to iOS or something? I use my ipad and iphone a combined 15 hours a day

I wasn't questioning your intelligence. I was questioning your knowledge. there's a difference.

the way you phrased your statement about multitasking implied that single or double tapping to switch to another app made a difference. it doesn't, as you know. I've seen so many people make mistake on here, I wanted to point out that it doesn't matter if you hit the button once or twice.

and, yes, I also know that apps need to be written for this save state to take place.

 

[Firestorm]

How does messing up a button press trash things?

Unless something has changed from when I used it, pressing it once means your IRC app is now closed period while double tapping means you stay connected. Although I was using weird Backgrounder apps on my iPhone 3G.

 

[Burger]

I'm confused. Why would they be doing that next week instead of earlier? Could you please stop talking out of your ass on every point here? I'm also not following why RIM would market their enterprise features to consumers or why reaching enterprise first is so bad.

If you think I'm talking out of my ass, feel free to actually argue some points that I've made over the past few pages, instead just pulling your head out of the sand every now and again.

 

[DopeyFish]

How does messing up a button press trash things?

when apple changed the rotation lock... to make it only accessible by multitasking menu.... needing it locked.... accidently clicking home and losing work...

see a connection...

sure that's fixed now but it's still a terrible method

 

[Firestorm]

If you think I'm talking out of my ass, feel free to actually argue some points that I've made over the past few pages, instead just pulling your head out of the sand every now and again.

I'm just wondering how you arrived at those statements. I mean, I guess you're assuming companies don't actually reach out to the clients they already serve before launch? Zzoram already stated why enterprise is a good target for RIM. And like I said, I don't see why they'd really need to show us why it's beneficial for enterprise because we don't give a fuck.

Honestly, there are only three things you do on a tablet:

• Web Browse
• Consume Media
• Use Consumption Apps

There's no production on these things although Adobe's Tablet SDK for iOS / Android / BlackBerry Tablet OS could change it a little bit. The Apps is the only thing that could be lacking for PlayBook as the other two are on par with iOS from what has been publicly shown. It has the added benefit of being easily deployable by corporations though due to the BlackBerry pairing for E-Mail / Calendar. No secure information is stored on the device.

 

[Burger]

Honestly, there are only three things you do on a tablet:

• Web Browse
• Consume Media
• Use Consumption Apps

There's no production on these things although Adobe's Tablet SDK for iOS / Android / BlackBerry Tablet OS could change it a little bit. The Apps is the only thing that could be lacking for PlayBook as the other two are on par with iOS from what has been publicly shown. It has the added benefit of being easily deployable by corporations though due to the BlackBerry pairing for E-Mail / Calendar. No secure information is stored on the device.

Really? REALLY? You are one of those people?

Apps are everything to the modern smartphone/tablet. People buy these things because of the Apps. RIM's heavy handed approach to all sorts of wrappers and emulators will IMO prove to be the wrong move. They should have gotten the native SDK right and waited until they could do it right. It's not as if they haven't had time.

In the article I posted earlier Balsillie was adamant RIM wasn't caught unaware by the iPad! These guys live in a fantasy land. Like the developer that was quoted, "They are not idiots, but they’ve behaved like idiots."

Perhaps for an extra $499 you can glue an iPad to the back of your Playbook and have it run iOS Apps too!

 

[dream]

Honestly, there are only three things you do on a tablet:

• Web Browse
• Consume Media
• Use Consumption Apps

I'm genuinely surprised to see you saying this.

 

[Firestorm]

I'm genuinely surprised to see you saying this.

I've personally not found any other use for them. They feel like consumption products to me and I haven't really used them to produce anything yet.

I do like the announcement of the Photoshop Touch SDK for iPad / PlayBook / Android tablets though. Maybe some cool things to be done there. Would love to do some work on Photoshop and be able to walk over to someone on the other side of the office and show them a work in progress on a PlayBook without having to e-mail PSD files back and forth (or PNGs etc. if they don't have Photoshop).

 

[Tobor]

when apple changed the rotation lock... to make it only accessible by multitasking menu.... needing it locked.... accidently clicking home and losing work...

see a connection...

sure that's fixed now but it's still a terrible method

Can you give an example of an app that "loses your work" by pressing home? I have plenty of productivity apps, and they all save on exit automatically.

 

[scorcho]

can we stop with the Apple vs. RIM wars? why can't all tablets just get along?

Honestly, there are only three things you do on a tablet:

• Web Browse
• Consume Media
• Use Consumption Apps

it really depends on the user. for me, this is true. i love my iPad 2, but i use it mainly for consuming news and podcasts and little else. if i'm on the couch i still grab my MBP instead of the iPad for casual browsing.

 

[VanMardigan]

Yep. Because developers make an assload of money from Apple at the moment and there is still all of this "learning something new before any one else" that pays of much better in the Apple world. Microsoft/Nokia, however, really suck at their developer targeting. Unfortunately for them there are a stupifying number of HTML5/Spring/Java developers out there who can hop onto Android or the Playbook without thinking about it. Moving to WIndows Phone 7 (especially in the gaming space) still requires too many compromises.

How has MS sucked at targeting developers? Have you seen what's going on with the windows phone app store? 13K apps, its really impressive. One of the few things you can give them credit for is that.

 

[Zzoram]

I rarely use apps even on my iPhone 4. It's almost all browser, a bit if SMS, a bit of email. The only apps I use regularly are alarm clock, weather eye, and calendar. Apps are overrated. I don't find iPhone gaming that fun and prefer browsing to games in my spare time. After the initial "new phone" phase when everyone tries a hundred apps, the stuff most people regularly continue to use are the apps available on every platform in competent forms.

 

[VanMardigan]

Certain apps can complement or even enhance the experience you would get on a browser. For example, the Ebay app is better than the browsing Ebay from your phone, ScoreCenter is better than ESPN at checking scores. The IGN app is way better than trying to access the horrendous site on a web browser, etc. Then there are social things like Twitter and FB, which are again better on apps than using the web browser except for specific instances when you're trying to do something fancy.

Everyone uses their devices differently, but I definitely wouldn't want to get by without apps on a mobile device.

 

[Zzoram]

Certain apps can complement or even enhance the experience you would get on a browser. For example, the Ebay app is better than the browsing Ebay from your phone, ScoreCenter is better than ESPN at checking scores. The IGN app is way better than trying to access the horrendous site on a web browser, etc. Then there are social things like Twitter and FB, which are again better on apps than using the web browser except for specific instances when you're trying to do something fancy.

Everyone uses their devices differently, but I definitely wouldn't want to get by without apps on a mobile device.

Im not suggesting a mobile world without apps. Just that the main apps are available on every platform. Everyone has the eBay, Facebook, etc apps. The main advantage of iOS are the game apps, mostly used as time wasters. I personally prefer the browser as a time waster than angry birds or infinity blade.

 

[lunarworks]

So sell millions of units in enterprise, and then go forth and conquer the consumer market?

Sounds fucking backwards if you ask me.

Worked for IBM.

Sort of. For a while.

 

[Zzoram]

Worked for IBM.

Sort of. For a while.

IBMs problem was price. Dell and HP stole the desktop PC market with inferior quality but bargain bin PCs stuffed with bloatware to further subsidize costs and direct sales to cut out retail margins.

Nobody except Motorolla is more expensive than Apple.

 

[btkadams]

So next week hundreds of CEO's, business teams and IT buyers are going to be lining up to purchase a playbook?

my friend's company of 15,000 people has ordered playbooks. obviously not every employee is getting one lol but seriously, the fact these things sync with your phone is HUGE for business people. your posts in this thread are coming off really antagonistic.

 

[Zzoram]

my friend's company of 15,000 people has ordered playbooks. obviously not every employee is getting one lol but seriously, the fact these things sync with your phone is HUGE for business people. your posts in this thread are coming off really antagonistic.

The Blackberry Bridge only resulting in temporary access to Blackberry smartphone information means companies can deploy them to workers temporarily without worrying about sensitive information leaks. It also lets them rotate the PlayBook across shifts and departments without any concern about security. A tablet that stores email/calender information has to be assigned to a single person otherwise the next person to use it will have access to all the last guy's stuff. PlayBook being more flexible means companies can buy fewer tablets and share them with more employees safely, which could encourage companies to buy them that wouldn't buy other tablets due to cost or security issues.

 

[kehs]

my friend's company of 15,000 people has ordered playbooks. obviously not every employee is getting one lol but seriously, the fact these things sync with your phone is HUGE for business people. your posts in this thread are coming off really antagonistic.

I hope he's also ordergin 15,000 BBs for their employees...

 

[btkadams]

I hope he's also ordergin 15,000 BBs for their employees...

the company already has blackberrys haha.

 

[Phoenix]

How has MS sucked at targeting developers? Have you seen what's going on with the windows phone app store? 13K apps, its really impressive. One of the few things you can give them credit for is that.

The number of apps isn't wholely relevant. How many developers are building apps and will they continue building good quality apps for your platform once you stop bribing them with goods. If you look at the metrics for what platforms developers plan to develop for, Windows Phone 7 is at the bottom of the list consistently. So either developers think the phone sucks, Microsof/Nokia aren't giving enough support, or they are just not targeting the right set of developers who consider that ecosystem valuable.

 

[Zzoram]

I don't know why people ignore Blackberry apps, they make a boatload of money. I remember the revenue charts had Blackberry apps outselling Android apps in 2010.

Now that developers can make apps pretty much however they want to for PlayBook and next year all Blackberry phones, why wouldn't they want a piece of that action?

 

[Blackhead]

Salesforce training manual for Playbook leaked (nb: flash site). I'm embarrassed to admit that I read through the whole thing. The only new info there that I hadn't seen yet was a visual demonstration of cut, copy & paste.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

I'm just wondering how you arrived at those statements. I mean, I guess you're assuming companies don't actually reach out to the clients they already serve before launch? Zzoram already stated why enterprise is a good target for RIM. And like I said, I don't see why they'd really need to show us why it's beneficial for enterprise because we don't give a fuck.

Honestly, there are only three things you do on a tablet:

• Web Browse
• Consume Media
• Use Consumption Apps

There's no production on these things although Adobe's Tablet SDK for iOS / Android / BlackBerry Tablet OS could change it a little bit. The Apps is the only thing that could be lacking for PlayBook as the other two are on par with iOS from what has been publicly shown. It has the added benefit of being easily deployable by corporations though due to the BlackBerry pairing for E-Mail / Calendar. No secure information is stored on the device.

I have never met a man that consumes content. What the hell is that?

 

[scorcho]

I have never met a man that consumes content. What the hell is that?

i take mine with a little bit of A1 steak sauce on the side.

 

[Firestorm]

I have never met a man that consumes content. What the hell is that?

It means watching a show, listening to music, playing a game, etc rather than producing it. Of course you know this and are merely doing your usual "context words are used in don't matter" thing you do.