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When RIM introduced the BlackBerry PlayBook, a real live demo of the device was conspicuously absent. At today's Adobe MAX conference, RIM put some of these doubt to rest by showing off the tablet in all its QNX-running glory. CEO Mike Lazaridis demoed the device live for the assembled developers. He showed off not just the device's multitasking interface, but also its imbedded Flash Player.
Lazaridis loaded up the full YouTube page and proceeded to play a video in HD resolution (over Wi Fi of course). Playback was surprisingly smooth and the page was still scrolling accurately while playing Flash. The basic message of the demo was a not too well veiled swipe at Apple. "We're not trying to dumb down the Internet for a small mobile device," said Lazaridis.
It is encouraging to see RIM actually has a product stable enough to show off on the big screen at MAX. Only time will tell if consumers or businesses will be interested in the device. Would you buy one, and what should the price be?
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oleg.ko@gmail.com
October 26, 2010 at 9:01pm
Does RIM understands that they already lost it? If PlayBook would suck and hang as much as usual BB (and it would - why not?) - what the hope they have? Is it just hope and faith? Does business can survive betting on it (Church is surviving, but can tech company?)?
riopato
October 25, 2010 at 8:23pm
the Touch Operating System market? Frankly I want MS to compete with possibly a Winphone overlay interface for accessing actual windows os programs in order to compete in the tablet trend. That would've been a way to step up the device to conform to the internet.
It's nice to see company like rim to actually do this and yes I notice that slight toward's Apple's itoy pretending to be an internet device.
Cache
October 25, 2010 at 3:34pm
I'll bet 300 quatloos that the RIM tablet will be a device without a true, dedicated purpose.
