“The BlackBerry maker had hoped to offer a Google Android-powered tablet later this year, but has now backed off the plan, says Rodman Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar, who has been monitoring the supplier and manufacturing partners,” Moritz reports. “The so-called BlackPad RIM tablet is being pushed out to early next year, he says.”
Moritz reports, “The move marks the third time in two weeks that a would-be tablet maker has shelved product preparations aimed at challenging the Apple iPad. Last week, Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) pulled the plug on its Slate tablet and Microsoft(MSFT) reportedly withdrew plans for the Courier device.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “JES42,” “Jersey_Trader,” and “Robert S.” for the heads up.]
@Great News
All technology companies releases new hardware on a regular schedule. The reasons for this are obvious, surely even to you.
bloodbath… Blandroid or RIMroid flavor developers will have to wait until next year.
wonder if HP / Palm will gain traction, maybe they’ll bring back the TouchPaq… and what of the Intel Nokia… moblin…
when moritz writes something stupid about apple everyone hates him, yet when he writes something equally stupid about RIM, it’s as good as gold.
seriously, how can a barely rumored device, that no one has any idea about, that the company never mentioned be called vaporware?
What a site this mdn is – i’m even embarrassed for mdn and i’m a huge apple fan.
Come on!! There can’t be an iPad killer if everyone chickens out.
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@double standard
“seriously, how can a barely rumored device, that no one has any idea about, that the company never mentioned be called vaporware? “
Maybe because of things like this written yesterday?
http://www.crn.com/mobile/224700713
Any threats to iPad dominance were expected to come from Windows-bearing tablet devices – the logic was that a full-fledged operating system that was already compatible with >90% of enterprise software would integrate seamlessly with the desktop, database, and enterprise solutions already present in the industry. And that’s where tablet research was headed until the iPad. Now all those also-rans are scrambling because their tablet solutions were going to follow the netbook spiral (full OS but too weak, too little battery power, too many ports/widgets to be worth anything) or they were going the Android, up-crafted phone OS route, and it was going to be too weak, too little battery power, too few applications, too little compatibility.
Apple has knocked them all back on their heels. The tech isn’t there yet to accomplish what it will take to dethrone the iPad, and none of the competitors realized until now that it would be a new market, not an expansion of an old one.
They’ll have to make it better… or, at least, as good. Gosh! It aint gonna be easy!
Besides of Apple’s, droping another tablet into the market is a damn risky entreprise in these days!!!!! 😀
Adobe continues to believe the way to your customer’s heart is by first ignoring them and then trying to make it’s own stupidity a legal issue. I think Adobe could use some changes at the top.
This is simply getting to be comical at this point.
Looks live the gommint will finally have a monopoly to look into: the iPad one.
The iPad is the iPad killer killer.
It’s now killed off three would be iPad killers.
You see. It’s “magical.” It makes the potential competition disappear, before they even exist.
Seriously, these vapor- “projects” are being canceled because their sponsors do not want to release a product that will be embarrassing sitting next to an iPad. There have been two for Windows 7 and now one for Android. It’s back to the drawing board; maybe in about two years, there will be a worthy competitor for the iPad Apple has out there TODAY.
100% market share for iPad….
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I just got my iPad 3G last night for a birthday present. My <strike>girlfriend</strike> soulmate loves me…she really loves me!!!
I don’t think people realize how much went into making the iPad. Apple was years ahead of everyone else in terms of iTunes, apps and everything else.
It’s damn easy to order the components and slap something together (minus the A4), but putting together the whole ecosystem is really beyond the capability of most others.
Also, a lot of other companies can’t drive the market and be patient with the results. The iPad is going to have a slow start…yes, a SLOW start. I know 1 million in less than a month seems like a large number, but that means in the US, only 1 out of every 300 people you know has one…actually worse than that as many were taken over seas. You really need to get your hands on one to appreciate the iPad. Even taking it home and using the apps provides a much different experience than the in-store demo. Apple is in a position to leverage the iPod/iPhone ecosystem to the iPad and thus not only sell way more as a result but make a profit until the big numbers start coming in.
The scary part is that Apple can then leverage the iPod/iPhone/iPad ecosystem for the real Apple TV initiative which will take over all kinds of things in the living room, from DVD/Blu-Ray to game consoles and TiVos.
@ macslut
> only 1 out of every 300 people you know has one
ONLY? I think you are one of those people in a metro or suburb area, who seems to believe that everyone in the U.S. has broadband Internet and a recent personal computer.
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So 1 in 300 people in the U.S. owning a device with an average selling price that is over $600 after 28 days on the market is a monumental accomplishment.
My point exactly. That article has nothing but rumors and innuendo. No facts. Using that standard, any product ever thought about at any company is vaporware. That’s an absurd notion. Of course this is mdn, so no use applying reason to the situation.
haha, they thought it was gonna be 1000 bucks.. now they can’t compete