“BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. has recalled about 1,000 of its PlayBook tablets that were shipped with faulty operating systems that may have prevented users from performing the initial setup of the device,” Stuart Weinberg reports for Dow Jones Newswires. “In a statement, RIM said the majority of the affected devices are still in the distribution channel and haven’t reached customers.”
MacDailyNews Take: Of course they haven’t.
Weinberg reports, “The statement followed a report on the Engadget blog Saturday that said the faulty batch of PlayBooks were shipped to Staples. The blog didn’t identify whether the Staples stores that received the recalled devices were in Canada or the U.S.”
MacDailyNews Take: Imagine Staples carrying the best tech products for a change. We know, quite the stretch.
Weinberg reports, “The highly-anticipated PlayBook launched to lukewarm reviews last month… RIM hasn’t yet indicated how many PlayBooks it has sold to date. It is expected to provide this information when it reports its results in June.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Another great week begins for DCW.
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MDN’s Take: ‘Of course they haven’t.’
Love it!!
How do they define “faulty operating system” Did they accidentally ship with Windows 7?
I don’t see RIM’s problem: Microsoft has made a business, not to mention created an entire industry (Oops! I mentioned it.), out of shipping a faulty OS.
HA HA!
Wow! They recalled ALL 1,000 of them!?! That’s gonna cost ’em…
To RIM this must qualify as a massive recall.
Was just going to ask that lol.
Has to be pretty close to all
Save the headline. It will be useful in a year or two:
RIM recalls PlayBook Tablets
Article begins: Remember RIM’s meager attempt to compete with the iPad? RIM sure does…
Faulty OS? Isn’t that exactly what happened to the first BB Storm?
Thought they said amateur hour was over….
lol!!
Ok, RIMM recalled about 1,000 of its PlayBook tablets. Was that the first, last, middle, or all? That is a gutsy group. I did not think they even made 1,000 of those turds. Were they the floor models?
Isn’t there about 1,000 Staples and BestBuy stores? Are they recalling the hole deal before it really starts? This is like the Microsoft Zones mp3 players. I have never seen one in the real world.
If you never see anyone with the device, did they ever really make them?
I actually saw a Zune in the wild. One of my students had one a while back – brown no less. Seemed normal otherwise. (The student not the Zune.)
A faulty OS? Holy shit someone snuck Android on the playbook!!!!!
What a disaster.
Is it still a recall if you’re only taking them back from your retail partners or does it have another name? If I were Staples, I’d be telling RIM they can keep them.
What’s that comercial tagline?…”Why doesn’t every tablet do this?” Yeah, right.
What perplexes me is why is RIM still in the game? They’re the North American version of Nokia, an organization run by clueless managers who refuse to acknowledge there’s a problem with their product lineup and stubbornly continue to churn out the same horrible plastic designs running on an antiquated OS.
Did they not research the market sufficiently before launching the Playbook? Who in their right mind would buy a product half the size of an iPad which costs exactly the same, dime for dime?
It’s no wonder that quality control broke down seeing how RIM likes to promote broken down pieces of plastic junk for sale. How can they distinguish that and the Playbook? This reflects badly on management thinking – rushing out a product if only to compete against the iPad but being clueless about ensuring strict quality control and completeness of features.
Steve Ballmer is proud to welcome Jim Balsillie and MikeLazaridis in his very EXCLUSIVE Clueless CEOs Club, aka the Clowns Club.
May this club live forever! As long as it takes!
“…the majority of the affected devices are still in the distribution channel and haven’t reached customers.”
Be assured they were already counted as “units sold.”
I love the smell of burning PlayBooks in the morning.
Apple should do a recall on iPad 2 because of bleeding issues. That would be a mess of about 2 million units to be recalled. My friend returned 3 units due to bleeding and finally gave up and returned it.
Guess it must be a Monday morning thing for me but…..
huh?
My daughter bought one last week and it works perfectly! She couldn’t be happier.
I wondered how long it would take for a RIM employee or a Blackberry distributer would take to do their ‘Fair and Balanced’ thing.
Tablets are defined by their Apps. iPad isn’t a winner. iPad running a Medical App for a Doctor, Nurse or student is a winner. Same goes for iPads running other killer Apps like games, text books, music Apps, GPS Apps, Science Apps, News Apps, the list goes on and on.
I’ve been watching the Playbook ads on TV. Playbook has only one killer App. It’s not e-mail. It’s not texting. It’s not that stuttering Flash player.
Look at the TV ads. Powerbook’s killer App is video playback in 4X3 and glorious 16X9 format. Oh that the other Tablet makers could have thought of this.
Video playback is king! Wish my iPad and my Xoom could do that.
Yes, she could be happier……if she bought an iPad instead.
Your daughter sounds like an idiot.
If my iPad started bleeding, I’d return it too! And maybe get a tetanus shot!!
Your friend?? Right. We believe you but thousands wouldn’t.
Why is it trolls are so transparent?
“highly-anticipated PlayBook” — geek oxymoron.
Tell me I’m not the only one who had to fight back a big ol’ grin upon seeing this headline…
Derision: What you get when you have no vision or system in DESIGN!
AAPL’s Incompetent Competition: RIMM
… They can not catch the iPad period!
No email on theirs!
… Buy AAPL stocks before it goes past $422 this year 🙂
reminds everyone about inflated sales numbers: ‘shipped’ not ‘sold’ issue.
How many Xooms, Galaxy tabs returned?
RIM needs to call their swan song “The BUM Rap”.
Here’s a line they can use
“Cause we was too FAIL 2B BIG…..bitch”
On the bright side, they can claim that they shipped an additional 1000 units when they replace the defective units…
How do they recall something nobody has
RIM products have Flash and recalls. Beat that iPad!
“The highly-anticipated PlayBook”
Really? By whom? Even Blackberry users think the device sucks.