Alan Baker
In article <ji3ebo$o2...@speranza.aioe.org>, Nashton <n...@na.ca> wrote:

Nashton
On 02-22-12 9:53 AM, -hh wrote:

Sandman<m...@sandman.net>=A0wrote:

Nashton<n...@na.ca>=A0wrote:

Was it worth the wait? D... straight, it was!

The phrase "better late than never" comes to mind, although given tha=

the iPad shipped two years ago with email ... and that RIM's core business has been email for businesses through the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (which the Playbook **still** doesn't support) ... the phrase "exercise in futility" may be a far better description, at least by some analysts:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/BlackBerry-PlayBook-2-10.=

s-Why-This-Tablet-Will-Fail-203924/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/02/sorry-rim-the-playbook-sti.=

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...although others have tried to be enthusiastic, although still also apologetic:

http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/blackberry-playbook-os2-upd.=

finally-available/

This thing rocks and the folks at RIM deserve some kudos for the fantastic work.

So then why doesn't Nick send them an IM thank-you via a Blackberry Messenger?

Oh...right: =A0that RIM feature is still absent too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/technology/an-e-mail-app-arrives-fo.=

lackberry-tablet.html

Maybe Playbook 3.0 will have it, if RIM's current business plan of losing money on every sale (as per Abramsky, quoted by NYTimes) doesn't sink them by then.

This thing just rocks. Android apps work as if they were written fo=

sync via gmail, email, calendars, all work like a charm.

Flash too. I get to use what is available now, not some crippled de=

that can't browse the web and offer users the full experience of ev=

single website.

Well done.

My next phone: A BlackBerry.

Wow, talk about hysterical fanboy!

Indeed. =A0 Stikes one as a classical case of being in denial for buyer's remorse.

Really? The main reason I bought this thing was the form factor and to browse the web and experience it as it is meant to be experienced, Flas=

and all.

Alan Baker
Who decides the way the web was "meant to be experienced", Nicolas?

Tell the truth:

If it weren't for the fact that this gives you a chance to slam Apple, you'd be all over how wrong it is for a single company (Adobe) to control an aspect of the internet with a proprietary format.