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RIM co-CEO: BlackBerry PlayBook price cuts coming

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I went to the shops to have a look at the various non Apple slates. All of them were badly presented. The applications were dull, the email client wouldn't start because it needed an account, the marketplace was blocked because you have to put in a credit card. The playbook itself was stuck in a air hockey game, but I pressed every button and couldn't exit it. No wonder Apple is eating every one's lunch by just showing up.

That's why Apple started the Apple Stores in the first place - all those years ago, Macs used to get the same treatment so they needed somewhere to show them off.

even resellers have nice standard apple desks to present Apple products. The iPads have range of demo applications pre-installed to showcase what it is capable of. Meanwhile, Honeycomb tablets just feel like a chunk of metal.

I was looking a xoom in futureshop. It had angry birds installed.

Someone decided that it needed to have every possible space covered with an angry birds icon.

Yeah they do now. But like the other poster said before the Apple store they got the same shitty treatment.

Incidentally, I went over to Myer's in Australia to have a look at the Mac line up. Someone in their wisdom has decided that every iMac, MBP and Air needs to play Justin Bieber's music video at the loudest volume. Looped.

This is how Apple can be defeated. MS needs to hire someone to fly around the world and replicate this across all Apple demo units.

That is because playbook requires a swipe up from the bottom bezel to bring up app list where you can close it. This is due to the ingenious functioning bezel it has, which removes the need for that lingering bottom bar as in android.

The reason the button is there is for ease of discoverability. Actually I watched the MS tablet demo with the same horror that I don't think my dad will be able to operate this.

Now if he went ahead and fucking let me download the Native Development Kit, that'd be greeeat.

Seriously, they ask for your first born child and your best excuses in order to download their beta NDK so you can develop something??

I also applied for the beta NDK a few weeks ago and got no response even though the page said they will get back in 2 business days or something.

Their sluggishness in providing these key bits of gear is really infuriating me. How can they be so timely about shipping hardware but so slow about just giving us a damn SDK!?

How dumb is this guy? He's just killed all sales from "now" until "then".

It's one step up from the Osborne strategy.

HP did a similar thing. If I remember correctly, people who purchased between "now" and "then" got a refund for the rebate... whether RIM do that is another matter.

The question is how many people will buy a PlayBook now on the off chance they’ll get a rebate at some future point. Not that many I reckon.

What sales?

Dear Jim:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/dear-jim

You should never pre-announce price cuts. Just make the price cut, otherwise you are just telling people to put off their possible purchase.

yes. I dont understand why RIM keeps doing it with all their products. They announce QNX phones next year but launch OS 7 phones this year. The playbook was announced much before the scheduled launch but came much later than promised. I remember RIM promised a software update to playbook but it is yet to see the light of the day.

I am 100% sure that this price cut will not come anytime soon. Also, you can also be sure that the QNX phones will not come in 2011 end as promised but either they will appear on 2013 or they will hurriedly put together a lousy piece of junk and present it before you. Losers!

PlayBook is like the other tablets in the market except that it sucks. It is beyond me why did RIM relies so heavily on the operators for marketing and distribution. The PlayBook is a clear example how this arrangement has screwed up their product design

"co-CEO" ....makes me lul everytime

RIMM down about 20% today: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:RIMM

Missing earnings targets by about 10% will do that.

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