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Originally Posted by Hiro;
Probably prototype hardware simply playing a video loop, at least that's what the story said. That's awfully simple to do compared to generating an entire working OS. And because it only did something the old iPod Classic Video could do it gives us no evidence at all on where the actual OS or UI is in development.
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Originally Posted by Hiro;
If they were that close and had actual hardware they could ship to developers in October they would have shown it. That would have been worth enormous street cred. But they didn't show it. In Oct they will only provide beta device simulators and SDK's, bet on it.
It does wireless, that means it needs an FCC approval, those take several months, where is that? Once that hits the streets add 4.5 months before ship.
Where are the manufacturing rumors? Lots of overseas vendors have been passing rumors on tablet hardware, but none for BlackBerry. Once the design is even in a relatively stable prototype the manufacturing lines need to be specced, contracted and configured. That can be a 3-9 month proposition depending on the project.
These are all realities that tend to lower the probability that BlackBerry is ready to do much of anything real market-wise in less than 6 months. Either that or they became far better at contractor and FCC secrecy than Apple ever has been. I see the chance of that being between slim and none.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum;
You are brutal-- but acurate.
The chance that PlayBook delivers by Jun 2010 are 1:10
The chance that anyone cares are 0:10
From an IT or enterprise perspective-- Why would you wait 8 months for the promise of PlayBook, when today, you can implement the reality of iPad?
We (enterprise, IT) really are too busy to collect the bodies of the also-rans...
Hate to come across as an asshole, but that's what I do best!
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PlayBook is minimum 6 months away. Any unforeseen delay and that's 9 months away. I wouldn't call it vapour but it's ambitious, and risky, and clearly hyped up. We'll just have to see. In the meantime iPad 2 will be out first, that should be great. For the record I want other brand's tablets to succeed. But Playbook sounds like it is depending on Flash apps for apps to use. This is a quick implementation but risky for developers. Managing local storage can be tricky, Flash and AS3 are not the most secure and stable thing in the world, and HTML 5 apps again, as another option, have issues with local storage. Maybe I'm wrong and there will be QNX native apps???
Kidding.
