“Research In Motion Ltd., depending on its new PlayBook to bolster sales as demand for its BlackBerry phones withers, may have shipped just one of the tablet computers last quarter for every 19 iPads from Apple Inc.,” Hugo Miller reports for Bloomberg.
“The company, which reports earnings tomorrow, probably sold about 490,000 PlayBooks during the first full quarter of sales, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts, compared with the 9.25 million iPads shipped last quarter,” Miller reports. “Analysts cut estimates for full-year PlayBook shipments, to an average of 2.2 million, according to the survey.”
Miller reports, “The Waterloo, Ontario-based company will likely report its first revenue decline in nine years when it releases results tomorrow.”
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MacDailyNews Take: DCW.
I guess we just stopped caring about the Playbook.
Or we did not even start to.
490,000! That’s almost enough for every man, woman and child in Rasht, Iran!
Wait a minute, they think they sold that many?!
That’s what I thought.
With the reviews the Playbook had 490,000 is a extremely impressive number.
… is a lot of anything! OK, the reviews were somewhat less than stellar, but that only makes the numbers sold that much more impressive. I do have to wonder … what incentives were offered to get the people to buy? I looked at their web site … not that impressive. Nor was the price. Nor the look. BOGO?
I guess the “Anything but Apple” crowd and the “flag-waving” Canadians bought the PlayBook… plus RIM employees.
Nope. I just checked. No flag waving Canadians, nor normal Canadians for that matter, want to touch that pos.
Well… You should have read the comments on “The Globe and Mail” when RIM launched the PlayBook.
A ratio is expressed with a colon, i.e. 19:1
Judging from the reviews I’ve read, popular sentiment for the playbook could also be expressed with a colon.
Great pun!
Playbooks are produced by a colon.
That’s not fair!
Wayyyyyy too many zero’s in that number. More like 49 sold. Maybe…..
It’s 490,000 SHIPPED, no doubt.
Also, RIM’s quarter is shifted, comparing to Apple’s. If they would take the same months for RIM and Apple — say, Jun-August, then Apple’s sales of iPad are close to 11-12 million.
Amateur hour is over.
I heard they were huddling up with the HP brain trust for an exit strategy.
Prepare yourselves for $99 Playbricks, only nobody will want one.
Oh forgot about the buy one get Five free. That should rack up the numbers.
How short our memories are. What about all those years that Microsoft outsold Macs by at least that ratio? We were still happy with our Macs that only had a tiny fraction of the market. It doesn’t mean that RIM tablets won’t come good eventually. Enough of the Apple triumphalism already. Lets enjoy our Apple products whilst recognising that time at the top in the electronics industry is usually short.
When someone ships crap and says wait for the updates, you’ll like it eventually, well, we all get to make fun of it.
They asked for it, they got it.
Those numbers are SHIPPED, not sold. BIG difference, unless you’re Apple, because then it’s the same number.
Are you sure it isn’t SOLD to retailers (e.g., Best Buy)? If that’s the case, some segment of RIM doesn’t care if anybody actually bought them at stores, so long as they got their money. Question is, how many are still on backroom shelves at the retailers.
Agreed about the second sentence.
RIM shareholder bloodbath. It’s going to get ugly and I suspect there’ll be a shareholder cry to get rid of the co-CEOs. I feel bad for RIM’s employees, because there definitely will be layoffs.
” Lets enjoy our Apple products whilst recognising that time at the top in the electronics industry is usually short.”
We will enjoy ourcApple products.
With regard to the last part of your above quoted sentence, you should know by now that their is no electronics industry usually when it comes to Apple.
Apple is unique and operates differently from the members of it’s industry.
So sit on your “whilst” and think about that!
@ Applesmack. You have “ourcApple products”? Wow, how about sharing this new breed of gear with us smartass. “you should know by now that their is no electronics industry usually when it comes to Apple.” Huh? Can you even speak English? Finally, you have a problem with the word “whilst”? I think you need to go and broaden your obviously limited vocabulary. But don’t tell me, I bet you write “off of” and “anymore” don’t you. Twerp!
Some of those HP $99 TouchPads were actually PlayBooks; that’s why HP had so many in inventory… and sadly, no one noticed the difference.
Look at the ratio. The analyst is describing shipped to shipped. Just uses the term sold, as if shipped and sold are the same. This is the same mumbo jumbo as Samsung selling 1,000,000, when it was shipped that and sold about 20,000. No one wants this crap. The analysts report shipped because that’s the only number given to the public.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. RIM’s Co-CEOs need to declare the iPad to be “uncool.”
I actually own an iPad and a Playbook…along with an iPhone
the playbook has very good multitasking better than the iPad/iOS…the QNX OS is still not as refined or smooth as the iOS, especially in zooming, pinching and picking up gestures.
saying that, I surf with the PB a lot and like it in landscape mode. it’s not very good surfing in portrait mode. the iPad has no issue both ways and especially in portrait is superior due to the bigger size.
I would say the pb is a few updates from perfect for a 7″ tablet.