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Blackberry PlayBook Tablets – A Bloody Disaster; Will PlayBook be the Next TouchPad?

 Digital Media, Tablets  3 Responses »
Sep 152011
 
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Blackberry PlayBook - A Market DisasterResearch in Motion, maker of the Blackberry phones and the PlayBook tablet, disclosed its PlayBook shipments today for its fiscal second quarter (ended August 27, 2011).

And they are HIDEOUSLY  UGLY.

RIM said it’d shipped 200,000 Blackberry Playbook tablets into the channel.

Yes, a piffling 200,000 PlayBooks were shipped into the channel in the entire second quarter.

Mind you, shipments are not the same as sales. Shipments are just sending the tablets to stores like BestBuy, Staples or Office Depot.

Actual sales must be so horrible that RIM did not disclose it. We’d be surprised if RIM has sold more than 10,000 units to customers.

RIM executives acknowledged on the conference call today that the majority of the increase in inventory in the quarter (to $945 million from $325 million in the previous quarter) was related to the global rollout of the BlackBerry PlayBook that started early in Q2.

PlayBook, like most other tablets, has found it hard to stand against the Apple iPad juggernaut. Continue reading »

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Tablet Rush Ain’t No Gold Rush; We Predict Doom

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Oct 282010
 
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Hundreds of millions of dollars seems destined to go down the drain in the great Table rush of 2010 and 2011.

It seems every little digital media twit has got his knickers/her panties wet over the Tablet phenomenon.

We can’t scour over a publication without reading another gushing, drooling piece on these cool new Tablets.

Blame it all on the Apple iPad.

Ever since Steve Jobs launched the iPad in late March 2010 and the device gained some traction, there’s been no end to the hype about these consumer electronics devices.

With few exceptions like the HP Slate 500, most Tablets are targeted at the consumer entertainment market.

Often, these tablets (iPad) also double as e-book readers. Some like the Dell even include a phone. But who buys a Dell phone. Really, who?

Here are the major Tablet vendors:

Will the Tablets Fly?
No.

Despite all the hype by the digital media twits and the journalists (triggered largely by the iPad’s initial success) we expect to see a bloodbath in the Tablet segment. Continue reading »

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