I was thinking "will it blend?" and some good alternatives such as "will it float?", "will it roast with turkey stuffing?" or "will it skydive?". Then I thought of the questions RIM should have thought about before announcing it.
I'd rather find a TouchPad floating around for $250 than bother with either.
Actually, the Fire isn't bad. It's certainly not an iPad, but if you're planning to use it mainly for reading with a little other stuff thrown in, it's OK.
The Touchpad is OK for $250 (you can find plenty of them on eBay for less than that). My daughter likes hers a lot. (I bought 4 of them, sold 3 on eBay, so my net cost for hers was .... free).
Being Canadian I do welcome the Sale price. After playing around with my bosses Playbook a bit, I discovered it wasn't as bad as many are making it out to be.
Sure - it's definitely no ipad, however for just browsing the web, looking at photos or playing some videos off YouTube its actually a great device! I personally love the size. The ipad can get a little heavy after extended use and at times feels a little overkill in size (especially in coffee shops).
Between the Fire and Playbook at $199, I'd definitely take the Playbook due to more output options to TV and the buttery smooth operation I personally experienced flipping between apps, scrolling on the Internet and viewing photos.
I know the Ipad can do more. Can't argue that. But at $199 it's the perfect coffee table/shop companion!
I also plan on getting a KIndle Fire/Playbook/Kobo Vox as a companion to my iPad. It will be perfect when travelling in the car. If one of children wants to get on Facebook or do some web-surfing, they'll have a bigger screen to use than their iPod Touch. (Tethered to an iPhone)
$199 to $249 is all I'd pay for a non-Ipad device.
It would be kind of a downer to end up with a PlayBook or Kindle instead of a full iPad for Christmas! Cheap is cheap, but if it can?t come close to doing what you want, even cheap is a bad buy.
I totally agree. Blackberry is still aces for prices here in Canada. It has a better battery than my iphone which needs recharging daily. Not like my darlings at all or friends Samsung either which is the best battery out there.
For every playbook sale thats one less kindle fire or iPad sale going under the christmass tree. Judging by the sales the last week, both amazon and apple will feel some pain from this move.
Now with 1 million users in its first year of exisitance there will now follow an army of Indian developers to create the apps to sell to all those users.
They've now got a serious business case to compete with Apple's ecosystem model, sure its a more business orientated crowd but they're just applying Apple's successful business model, at 70million users and growing I wouldn't write them off. Who cares anyways, there's room in this world for both.
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"Will it work?"
"Will it sell?"
"Will it kill RIM?"
I'd rather find a TouchPad floating around for $250 than bother with either.
Actually, the Fire isn't bad. It's certainly not an iPad, but if you're planning to use it mainly for reading with a little other stuff thrown in, it's OK.
The Touchpad is OK for $250 (you can find plenty of them on eBay for less than that). My daughter likes hers a lot. (I bought 4 of them, sold 3 on eBay, so my net cost for hers was .... free).
You can pour syrup on shit, but it's still not pancakes.
Hmmmm... I went to a restaurant where they definitely served me pancakes, but they tasted like shit.
Which is, I think, analogous to the situation with RIM and the Playbook.
Being Canadian I do welcome the Sale price. After playing around with my bosses Playbook a bit, I discovered it wasn't as bad as many are making it out to be.
Sure - it's definitely no ipad, however for just browsing the web, looking at photos or playing some videos off YouTube its actually a great device! I personally love the size. The ipad can get a little heavy after extended use and at times feels a little overkill in size (especially in coffee shops).
Between the Fire and Playbook at $199, I'd definitely take the Playbook due to more output options to TV and the buttery smooth operation I personally experienced flipping between apps, scrolling on the Internet and viewing photos.
I know the Ipad can do more. Can't argue that. But at $199 it's the perfect coffee table/shop companion!
I also plan on getting a KIndle Fire/Playbook/Kobo Vox as a companion to my iPad. It will be perfect when travelling in the car. If one of children wants to get on Facebook or do some web-surfing, they'll have a bigger screen to use than their iPod Touch. (Tethered to an iPhone)
$199 to $249 is all I'd pay for a non-Ipad device.
You can pour syrup on shit, but it's still not pancakes.
Fascinating insight, has anyone ever told The International House of Pancakes? They could use this advice.
also my new iphone battery is dying daily. yuck.
totally agree with you.
No, you're disagreeing with everyone.
ipad is so over priced.
Not a single person has made that point. That point is also blatantly incorrect, as it cannot be 'overpriced'.
also my new iphone battery is dying daily. yuck.
It's a phone.
Now with 1 million users in its first year of exisitance there will now follow an army of Indian developers to create the apps to sell to all those users.
They've now got a serious business case to compete with Apple's ecosystem model, sure its a more business orientated crowd but they're just applying Apple's successful business model, at 70million users and growing I wouldn't write them off. Who cares anyways, there's room in this world for both.