How do you figure? The same basic hardware is remanifesting as the Kindle Fire, so that's not where RIM screwed up.
When I talked to non-tech types about the Playbook, one of the common themes was "it's a Blackberry without email? That's stupid."
I mean, to the average consumer Blackberry is largely synonymous with email and BBM. What made the move particularly bizaro is that RIM tried to sell this anti-feature as a corporate security thing... for a device whose primary appeal was to end consumers.
Either way, it was a stupid waste of the Blackberry brand.
When I talked to non-tech types about the Playbook, one of the common themes was "it's a Blackberry without email? That's stupid."
I mean, to the average consumer Blackberry is largely synonymous with email and BBM. What made the move particularly bizaro is that RIM tried to sell this anti-feature as a corporate security thing... for a device whose primary appeal was to end consumers.
Either way, it was a stupid waste of the Blackberry brand.