“Research In Motion’s PlayBook tablet computer launched in almost empty stores on Tuesday, in a far cry from the frenzy that accompanies the debut of anything from rival Apple,” Alastair Sharp and Sinead Carew report for Reuters.
“At an Office Depot in Midtown New York, just three PlayBooks, RIM’s answer to the Apple iPad, left the shelves in the 20 minutes after the store opened, a store employee said,” Sharp and Carew report. “‘It’s going to be a tough sell to the consumer,’ BGC Partner analyst Colin Gillis said of the PlayBook, a sleek but flawed gadget that doesn’t yet offer the secure email that is the trademark of RIM’s ubiquitous BlackBerry.”
Sharp and Carew report, “Early reviews panned the WiFi-only PlayBook for lacking email and organizer applications — the gadget needs a BlackBerry to access those. In a likely blow to RIM, key U.S. carrier AT&T said it will not support the BlackBerry Bridge function that lets the PlayBook mirror a BlackBerry smartphone. AT&T, the second largest U.S. carrier, said it was still testing the secure software… The PlayBook launch was a stark contrast to the frenzy when Apple launched its iPad 2 a month ago and consumers lined up overnight to buy the gadget.”
MacDailyNews Take: They’re still lining up for iPad 2 outside Apple Stores every morning.
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血祭り
Bloodbath
Newsflash:
Today the charitable organization Mops For Industry sent out a record number of buckets and mops to Research In Motion (RIM) after the failed debut of their iPad wannabe device. Cleanup efforts at RIM are under way. Local waste water recycling facilities are refusing to accept hundreds of gallons of blood pouring out of RIM’s offices. 😉
What would “Bloodbath” translate to in Canadian?
Waterloo
You’ve been waiting to use that one, haven’t you?
“At an Office Depot in Midtown New York, just three PlayBooks, RIM’s answer to the Apple iPad, left the shelves in the 20 minutes after the store opened,” a store employee said.
Two possibilities on who those three people are:
a) RIM plants, or
b) idiots.
I think it’s the latter. Come on, I’m sure RIM can find at least 10 plants for a New York store!
Abdullah, I have not really seen any hands on reviews. It is possible that 3 people purchased one so that they could write a review. It could also be a purchase from a local company that uses BlackBerry phones to see if there is anything that they want to support.
If RIMM is drinking their own Cool-Aid and are delusional, then there are hundreds on the shelf that the 3 were taken from. Why would anyone buy anything that doesn’t exceed the iPad and it’s thousands of apps?
The fact that RIMM took it to market screams sad desperate and delusional. This is Apple’s market now. Make one for a niche application or control display but don’t think consumers or general companies will see a reason to buy them.
The battle was over long ago and no one showed up to fight Apple for the tablet market!
Right on. Except that there is no such thing as a tablet market – there’s only an iPad market.
In your multiple choice a and b are not mutually exclusive lol.
I hear RIMM’s co-CEOs like their strategy. They like it a lot.
+1
+1
Exec A “How can we differentiate our tablet from the iPad?”
Exec B “Make it work only with our BlackBerrys”
Exec A “Great idea!”
You just reminded me of that hilarious BP skit where they were all in a meeting trying to brainstorm solutions to the oil spill. RIM must be the real life version.
Is’nt that 1/2 exec A?
A+B=doubledoh!
How do you say “Dead in the Water” in Canadian?
“Dead in the Water, eh”
“Dead in the Water, eh”
Hey…great minds think alike eh?
“Dead in the Water, eh” = “We’re hosed, eh?!”
“Want to look at a Playbook, eh?
“Nah. Let’s go have some poutine.”
“Oh, yeah. And a brewski, too, eh?”
We’re crazier than two loons on a pond.
Hey, all we have up here is ice… great place to keep (a) stiff on.. So RIM fits the bill on that one.
Tabernac! That is the universal Quebecois curse that fits any situation. It’s the strongest swear word that can be used.
When you release a product that’s less than half-baked and you suddenly realize what you have done, Tabernac!
Tabernac, but only in Quebec 🙂
It’s just not fair!
According to this article (in french: you’ll have to trust me!)
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/produits-electroniques/201104/19/01-4391441-les-acheteurs-ne-se-ruent-pas-sur-la-playbook.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_boitePourAccueilCbp_10209_accueil_POS1
a Sears Store near Montreal had a Special Launch event today for the Playbook and they managed to sell one unit by 14h00 this afternoon. Not bad!…
The article says “one woman bought 32”.
Qu’elle d’homage!
Playbook launched today? Launch is a pretty strong word. It’s more like those early films of experimental plane “flights.” PlayBook is a LameDuck.
Still, it sounds like sales are going to be “smooth”. While tablet makers are trying to copy Apple’s device, they are brilliantly staying away from Apple’s not-enough-stock-to-meet-demand boondoggle. By keeping sales slow enough to ensure that everyone who wants one can just walk into Staples or BestBuy and get one, they are sure to keep their customers happy. You can get your email-free, app-less, featureless, calculator/paperweight at you leisure. Winning!!
Calculator?! I read somewhere you have to use the combo BlackBerry/BlackBerry Bridge because the PlayBook doesn’t have REAL keys :o)
Playbook launched today? Really? I was at a nearby strip mall and needed some low-tech paper envelopes from Staples. Their front windows had these big signs plaster all over with something like “We have tablets,” or “Tablets are here!” I thought it was for the Xoom but one of the signs said something about the RIM Playbook.
I went inside and looked all over for the display. What a disappointment: Back out of the high-traffic area near the other slow movers there was one cardboard display unit with a “hands on” PB and Xoom. No one was interested in them.
When I stole a glance, one of the Best Buy clones came running over (okay, a fast trot anyway) and asked if I wanted a demo. I said no thanks, I had an iPad 2 and I just happend to pass by the display stand. He had the biggest hangdog expression on his face that it was hard to not burst out laughing. He thought he might have had a live one! I didn’t have the heart to ask how many they’ve sold.
Meanwhile, at the BB a few stores away, where I went to get an iPad stylus, they had a whiteboard listing current inventory (3 32GB wifi whites plus a bunch of gen 1’s). I asked how they were moving and was told that the sell out almost daily.
That RIM co-CEO team ought to ponder the lack of buzz and no lines of people clamoring to get their hands on one.
RIM has a bridge they’d like to sell ya.
That’s because it’s available EVERYWHERE and not just a store! It’s available at most electronic stores! I know 4 people who bought one today!
if you know four people who bought a playbook today, Marco, then RIM is doing better than MS as I never knew one person who bought a Zune. RIM will sell millions of these things in the first year! 🙂
Polo. “still looking”
hey! No lineups, but at least RIM *cares* about their customers
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/why-were-there-no-blackberry-playbook-lineups-because-rim-cares-about-its-consumers-2011-04-19
(yeah, right…)
Exec 1 “let’s just make about 50 of these for the launch”
Exec 2 “great idea, if we sell all of them, we can say that we can’t keep up with the demand”
Exec3 ” that sounds great, then we’ll make 50 more and say our factories are cranking them out as fast as possible.
Exec 2 “when you say factory, you mean Lan Chie, right?”
Exec 3 “oh yeah, I forget Lan Chie will be on vacation.”
Exec 1 “Don’t worry, we probably won’t sell 50 anyway.”
A post on that website said that Microsoft must have really cared about its Kin customers too — priceless!
iPad users don’t care…
Dust gathers…
RIM freaks out…
just sub the PB for the parrot
all
time
went to downtown store today
big posters of playbook on windows of retailer
went in, not a single person in front of the lonely demo playbook. Not one person. And this was store surrounded by office buildings.
I pity the 3 that bought it. What a waste.
No line-ups because nobody was waiting for it to be released. Sorry, RIM, way too little, too late.
Answer: What is RIM?
Anybody care to ask the question…
rest in peace
I saw poster for playbook at Miami airport on Saturday “the Time for Amateurs Is Over” WTF is bb nuts was my first thought. Then I laughed. Then I thought an e-mail device company that makes a tablet that doesn’t do email ; released six months after Besilly said it would; half the usable size and more expensive than iPad; no apps, no calendaring, no contacts – hmmnn. Seems to me the time for amateurs has just begun. Hopefully they will just fade away quietly withowon a lot of whining.
What do you bet, that RIMM does not release the playbook’s sales number. Will they hide the sale of the playbook?
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