In the UK, O2 “has decided to ditch RIM’s first tablet and is emailing customers who expressed an interest in buying one to explain why it has had a change of heart,” Mic Wright reports for Electricpig.
“The O2 email states that it ‘will not be selling the device’ and explains ‘unfortunately there are some issues with the end-to-end customer experience,'” Wright reports.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Like everyone else, Brits want real iPads, not fakes.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Sarah” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Even my friends who are not very tech-savvy recognise that PlayBook is a failed product!
oh snap!
it is looking like Playbook is out of plays….
At least the Brits have common enough sense to not even accept this device as complete.
Hahahahahahhahahahahhaha…….bwahahahahaahahahahhahaha….ahahahaahahahaha
Bwahaahahhahahahahhaha *cough* *wheeze* hahaha
~DCW~
Why do manufacturers keep releasing half finished products and still expect them to be successful?
I blame decades of Microsoft’s half-assed success for all this good enough bullshit.
I blame it on the boss’s nova.
lol…BOSSA NOVA…damn auto-correction.
actually i kind of liked the original pun when i first read it.
If that was really an auto-correction creation, I will have to start using it for good material. Boss’s Nova was gold!
Agree, the first pun was better. The boss’s nova. Great
en
Related, sort of.
Policeman catches a couple in flagrante delicto as it were. Sarcastically says “I take it you’re doing the Bossa Nova ?”
“No” she replies,”the boss a favour !”
half-ass work faced SOX… RIM will as well.
OUCH!
Agreed.
Amateur hour is over (in the UK).
Oh yes, amateur hour is coming to a close.
If anyone wonders why we take such glee in this, simply remember what snotbags RIM have been about the iPad.
Yes I do!
Bloodbathier!
Poor RIM’s Playbook.
Isn’t Wills & Kate supposed to be going to Canada in August on a state visit? I suppose RIM will give them a free Playbook then. They’ll be able to give it away to charity in Los Angeles on their way back to Blighty or be the only two people in the whole of Britain using the Playbook when they get back to Blighty.
They have iPads. The Queen recently saw her two grandsons’ iPads and got one herself.
Smart move. No better way to prevent the spread of the herpes tablet than quarantine.
“The O2 email states that it ‘will not be selling the device’ and explains ‘unfortunately there are some issues with the end-to-end customer experience,’”
So to sum up, it’s so unbelievably crappy that we won’t be selling it lest our call centre becomes overloaded with complaints.
RIM’s “end-to-end customer experience”: The Human Centipede.
The sound of a RIM human centipede being flushed down the toilet ought to sound righteous.
“End-to-end”= “mouth-to-anus,” or, “Announcing the product-to-delivering a piece of…”
Are u sure u do not mean “the Human CentiPlaybook”
RIM=RIP
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that O2 won’t sell the iPad 2 either?
Could you please provide a reference URL? If this is factual, I’d be interested in what they DO sell.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/o2-confirms-it-won-t-be-offering-ipad-2-932779
Frack the mops.
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This qualifies as one of the most embarrassing events I can recall in computer history. RIM has a huge black eye. New product REJECTED by retail! Good golly gosh that’s harsh. 😥
Snootty RIM has lost it’s Voice.