Playbook slashed by $150 at Best Buy. Domino effect in full force. Samsung, Acer ane Asus will follow suit, just watch.
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The playbook at $199 would be cool, or better yet $149. At $449 I'd rather get an original iPad which works better and use the $50 left over on apps.
And people hate Apple for their anti-competition.. Well ladies and gentlemen.. Thanks to Apples competition these providers are finally having to lower the price of tablets. Normal tablets should of never been at the $400-$600 price range minus the iPad to begin with.
OVERSTATING THE DRAMA.
Rim playbook 64GB for 549, and a $50 saving on other models is hardly HP announcement of complete discontinuation of all its hardware and a sell off of existing units for $99....
I've seen Amazon sales that are more significant.
Rim playbook 64GB for 549, and a $50 saving on other models is hardly HP announcement of complete discontinuation of all its hardware and a sell off of existing units for $99....
I've seen Amazon sales that are more significant.
OVERSTATING THE DRAMA.
Rim playbook 64GB for 549, and a $50 saving on other models is hardly HP announcement of complete discontinuation of all its hardware and a sell off of existing units for $99....
I've seen Amazon sales that are more significant.
Don't think it's overstating anything. This is a precursor to the eventual end of the Playbook. I give RIM 6 months to dump it, much like it is doing with it's employees.
OVERSTATING THE DRAMA.
Rim playbook 64GB for 549, and a $50 saving on other models is hardly HP announcement of complete discontinuation of all its hardware and a sell off of existing units for $99....
I've seen Amazon sales that are more significant.
The Playbook's been dead for a while. Time to take off life support any day now.
Look I have a iPad and Playbook and alot of other Apple products, the Playbook software is much better then the iPad and the multitasking is way better. Spend a day or so with the Paybook and if you dont keep your comments to your self untill you give it a try ?
Staples has them for 50% off on the 7 and 8th it's reported on crackberry.
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackb...le-through-staples-50-off-2-days-only-645199/
http://forums.crackberry.com/blackb...le-through-staples-50-off-2-days-only-645199/
The Playbook could become a great tablet if RIM had waited some months to bring it to market. It doesn't even have a proper email client and PIM applications! Who would want to buy such a device? I have the impression that RIM will go out of business in the next five years if they continue like that. They have the enterprise business of course which is very lucrative, but at some point they will have problems there as well.
Typical Apple mentality. Apps make the device. Bare Android, with no apps at all, is still a great device. Not sure about Playbook though, only had few minutes to play with it.
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Android is pretty good but lacks an ecosystem. I used BB Playbook for about 20 min, it was pretty okay but the same problem - no apps. The conclusion is if an OS is not able to form a community, its definitely going to fail.
Did I say bare Android was junk? However why should one pay $500 for a tablet that lacks an ecosystem designed for it?
50-150 dollars difference is not good enough for me to justify Android or Blackberry playbook.
iPads hold very nice value even after a year or longer.
Other tablets do not.
Tablets are not as necessary as smart phones. Tablet is kind of luxury item.
It's nice to have, but you do not need it.
I will buy blackberry tablet if they can lower the price down to 199 dollars or lower. Other than that, don't bother.
iPads hold very nice value even after a year or longer.
Other tablets do not.
Tablets are not as necessary as smart phones. Tablet is kind of luxury item.
It's nice to have, but you do not need it.
I will buy blackberry tablet if they can lower the price down to 199 dollars or lower. Other than that, don't bother.
OVERSTATING THE DRAMA.
Rim playbook 64GB for 549, and a $50 saving on other models is hardly HP announcement of complete discontinuation of all its hardware and a sell off of existing units for $99....
I've seen Amazon sales that are more significant.
No ****, right? The ****ing sensationalist title is annoying. My dog poop bags were on sale for the same percentage discount ... guess they're headed for demise.
excessive use of eye rolls because it's Friday.
No ****, right? The ****ing sensationalist title is annoying. My dog poop bags were on sale for the same percentage discount ... guess they're headed for demise.
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It's an overstatement until the Playbook is actually dead. Your delusions of psychic powers aren't that interesting.
The Playbook probably will eventually die I'm afraid, but your "news" is rather uninteresting at the moment.
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It's an overstatement until the Playbook is actually dead. Your delusions of psychic powers aren't that interesting.
The Playbook probably will eventually die I'm afraid, but your "news" is rather uninteresting at the moment.
Funny, since I called the death of the Touchpad a couple of weeks before it happened on this very forum. Playbook will be in the discount bin for under 200 within 6 months as RIM abandones it completely to focus strictly on bringing their phones back into popularity... But will also fail there until the co-CEO knuckleheads running RIM are fired.
The problem, is that most of the iPad's competitors, really don't want to be in this space. They're here, because they feel they they must be, because the iPad has such huge traction.
I get the feeling that most of them are blindly following, in the mere hope they garner some sales, hence Samsung's assault a few days ago, with so many different sizes. Heck, they even announced a Windows 7, Wacom-enabled tablet!
Samsung has no idea what the consumer wants, so they're throwing the whole lot up against the wall, to see what sticks.
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I get the feeling that most of them are blindly following, in the mere hope they garner some sales, hence Samsung's assault a few days ago, with so many different sizes. Heck, they even announced a Windows 7, Wacom-enabled tablet!
Samsung has no idea what the consumer wants, so they're throwing the whole lot up against the wall, to see what sticks.
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I still laugh, when I think of RIM launching the PlayBook as a business-grade tablet, sans native email & calendaring, but with Need For Speed installed.
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