RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook Already has 3 Strikes–Is It Out?

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has only been available for a hardly a short days and already it has three strikes against IT — perchance even more.

The reviews so far are infamously horrendous, evidence to the fact that RIM was rushing to compete in the tablet marketplace, simply soon may non be competitive at all.

The PlayBook has a lot of mini-strikes against it; countenance's call those foul balls. For instance, the tablet shipped with no integrated netmail, contacts, or calendaring — essential tools for only about whatsoever wireless-connected device — and BlackBerry's app selection is laughable. Simply now senior wireless carriers and media outlets are inching away from the PlayBook, a go out that near signs RIM's end stock-purchase warrant.

The outset big strike was when AT&T pulled the plug happening the BlackBerry Bridge app. RIM made its name in the enterprise on email, but because the PlayBook doesn't have native e-get off capabilities, it requires the Blackberry bush Bridge app to, you know, function. Though Flange promises to bring e-mail to the PlayBook later this year, by that time there's a good chance RIM will be removing the PlayBook from retail shelves.

Just hold on a second: the PlayBook may not make it to bulky name retail shelves in the first place. That's the PlayBook's second strike: even though Flange was psyched that its pad of paper would eventually operate on Verizon's 4G network, Verizon is "meh" about the deal. A company voice told Reuters that Verizon is "still evaluating" the tablet and hasn't determined whether they plan along distributing IT.

So, let's see. Without email or a fast 4G network, you can still enjoy the PlayBook's sharp display to view Web media, right? Maybe non. Hulu just blocked the PlayBook's admittance to its streaming substance. While this isn't overmuch of a surprise, when you hit AT&adenylic acid;T, Verizon and major media channels like Hulu from the PlayBook's ugly equation, Lip doesn't appear to stand much of a chance at making IT dead of the little leagues, and in fact, may ne'er live down the superfluity of the PlayBook's failure, should this disheartened swerve persist in.

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