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koli

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Re: Playbook plays all


	jonbwfc wrote: The fact is RIM are launching the PlayBook into a market where there is already a mature product (the iPad 2) and where there's at least one other competitor who is in a similar boat but has a head start (Android 3).

Ipad2 and the Playbook are not very close substitutes tbh. Just look at the size. Playbook is portable to take with you and Ipad2 will stay at home. Plus there is a corporate market that RIM are going for first. Hence the lack of email client is not such a big deal. I don't think Android has a head start, it is just a unfinished as the Playbook.

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	koli wrote: It doesn't have email client or calendar? RIM says they will be available in 60 days. The user experience isn't polished yet? It can be fixed with updates in the future.

So what's your incentive to buy it now rather than in 60 days? Especially if you know that if nobody buys it, 60 days from now it'll have had it's price cut? And what if between now and then a better product from a competitor (like the HP tablet) comes along?

Why do think it will get a price cut? I think if you want the Playbook you will buy it now and surely you can wait 60 for the email client. Plus if you want to buy a Playbook it is very likely that you have a BB already so you don't need an email client anyway, you can use the BB Bridge.


	jonbwfc wrote: What we don't know is what RIM's criteria for 'success' for the PlayBook is. How many units do they expect to sell, how much profit are they making per unit? Are they using it as a 'halo' product to sell service subscriptions against? Apple famously say they care more about profit margin than market share - without knowing what RIM wants the playbook to do in the market, we can only judge it's 'success' in the broadest terms.

I didn't mention "success". I said don't write it off just yet...

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