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RIM calls PlayBook discontinuation ‘pure fiction’

http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/29/rim-calls-playbook-discontinua...

I still call BS. They should become a hardware only company.

I confess this is an Ad Hominem Circumstantial, but what would you say if you and your channel partners were sitting on a mound of unsold inventory? You’d talk up the future of the device while discounting the price in the hopes of quickly clearing the channel without alienating the people you need to sell your phones. Meanwhile you’d cut production off and when just about everything is sold, then you officially exit the market.

This doesn’t mean that they are existing the market, just that denying the rumour doesn’t really prove they’re still 100% behind it.

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