“It is the herpes of tablets — once you have it, you can’t get rid of it.”One of the perks of being a tech journalist are all the new toys we get to try out — companies generally send us products for a week or two, and after trying them out they’re sent back to the company (it keeps us honest),” Matt Stuart reports for CNNMoney.
“Except for this PlayBook. It was given to us for Julianne to review, and every time we contact RIM asking where to send it back to we don’t get a response,” Stuart reports. “I’ve been keeping it in a drawer at my desk, pulling it out only when sub-standard products are released and I can say: ‘But at least it’s not as bad as the PlayBook!'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yet another bad review for DCW‘s PlayBook; this time blessedly short and sweet.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
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“But at least it’s not as bad as the PlayBook!’”
OUCH. Starting to feel bad for RIM.
The t.v. Ads they show in Canada reek of desperation.
The ads they have been showing in the US during the Stanley Cup hockey broadcasts have been purely delusional. They basically boil down to, “We have Flash, ain’t that great!”
I love that commercial! They use Queen’s “Flash Gordon” theme as the background music. Whenever they get to the “AH-AAAA” part it reminds me that just the word “Flash” should make everyone run away screaming. They’re right. Run away screaming, from both Flash and the PlayBook.
what flash?… is it the little virus that disappeared after installing this clickToFlash?
What they always do is show fake PlayBooks, because the screen images are simulated. The actor touches the screen, but if you look carefully, he’s not actually touching what he should be touching. It’s all just CGI’d. How can they pretend they are showing us Flash or the whole web, when they don’t show us any Flash or the web at all?
Anagram:
Desperation.
A rope ends it.
Shut it down. Shut this interview down. It’s just not fair!
That was funny.
They don’t want it back because it counts in their sales figures!
Bingo!
Makes sense
“You can’t compare the PlayBook to other tablets! It’s not fair!”
LOL… I had almost forgotten that statement.
“It is the herpes of tablets….” That line alone makes this article worth it. So RIM has the Playbook and the Herpes Tablet, now that’s diverse. Oh and if your significant other surprises you with a new Herpes Tab…….you two should probably sit down and have a little talk. I’m just sayin’…..
But guys, this is a ‘business’ tablet. 🙂 I like how it gets facebook before native email.
It’s not much of a business machine if it lacks basic things like password protection and encryption.
Did anyone else laugh their ass off at the commercial set to “Brass in Pocket” (I’m Special)” by The Pretenders?
I don’t see a lot of that commercial anymore.
Yup, sure did. It was especially ironic when you look at the original video for that song.
Now they are hyping the fact that the PlayBook can display Flash content, in an ad using the theme song from the cheesy 1980s Flash Gordon movie.
Hilarious!
They shoulda’ used the theme song from the cheesy 1970s movie Flesh Gordon.
Wow, So much for Leo Laporte’s iPad-killer
Leo Laporte is a douche bag. Steve Jobs snubbed him some years back and Leo has had a bug up his ass ever since.
Ouch! Ouch! RIM has really fallen behind terribly. In my government agency, though they invested heavily in a Blackberry Enterprise Servers years ago, they are overtly steering people away from RIM devices to iOS devices.
Anyone remember PALM? RIM is heading in the same direction! HP overpaid for PALM, my guess is Balmer will overpay for RIM, just like he did for Skype.
Except that WebOS is light years beyond anything RIM can muster. In three years time WebOS will be gunning it out with Android for second place.
Their Flash commercial talks about how their PlayBook can do Flash, “unlike another tablet we could mention”, which gives those lucky PlayBook users “the whole internet, not just part of it”.
And a current Android dumbphone commercial brags about it’s “dual core processor”.
Something only Apple seems to understand is that the widest target audience for these devices don’t give a flying crap about “dual core” this or that, nor would 1 in 10 be able to tell you anything about Flash.
Is amateur hour over yet?
NOOOO! I mean, YEEESSSS! Amateur hour is over!!
(Well, it will be in a few months when all these playbooks go the way of the zune)
As long as this horrendous piece of crap is on the market, amateur hour is in full swing.
Playbook is superior. Your statements make it clear. You are afraid – and so you feebly mock the competition. One year from now you will pathetically defend the iPads waning marketshare…
Playbook could be better if you let us at Dell build it. We are on a winning… STREAK when it comes to tablet computers.
Streak, get it? PC humor is awesome. Buy a Dell.
That was sarcasm, right?
maybe so…but at least I will sleep easy knowing I made just under $20,000 shorting RIMM stock by buying put option contracts.
Wait until Microsoft buys Rimm and introduces Zunebook, spreading terror in the tablet world!
Apple out-Walkmanned the Walkman, now they’ve out-BlackBerried the BlackBerry!
RIM…from Top Dog to rabies infected mutt!
I’m curious–do RIM employees use the Playbook? When I read the headline I was struck with the thought of RIM employees refusing to use their own product.
RIM = Rest in Misery.
And wouldn’t Herpes be a great name for any kind of product, especially a car?
“The Toyota Herpes – Stuck on you.”