Research in Motion's 7-Inch 'PlayBook' Tablet to Target Business Users

kdarling said:
On the contrary, there were lots of female reporters bemoaning the iPad name. Even a quick Google shows dozens of such articles, for example this one from the New York Times:

When Apple announced the name of its tablet computer today — the iPad — my mind immediately went to the feminine hygiene aisle of the drugstore. It turns out I wasn’t alone.

The term “iTampon” quickly became a trending topic on Twitter because of Tweets like this one: “Heavy flow? There’s an app for that!” A CNBC anchor, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, said the iPad was a “terrible name” for the tablet. “It reminds me of feminine products,” she said.

“Are there any women in Apple marketing?” asked Brooke Hammerling, founder of Brew Media Relations, a technology public relations firm. “The first impression of every single woman I’ve spoken to is that it’s cringe-inducing. It indicates to me that there wasn’t a lot of testing or feedback.”

But perhaps this was mostly in the USA.
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I have to admit, I did miss that. But I asked women directly. I find most journalists work on the assumption that they have to play to the gallery. It's very unhealthy in my ever so humble opinion. It's even more so when women feel they have to do it too.

I find that women, when writing as women, bring a special level of insight into many many subjects. But in a predominantly male environment they often take on male literary characteristics. I blame male editors for this.

We could take this as far as it could go, but if you've read Three Cups of Tea, you'll know the the difference educating one girl can make. The same goes for allowing one woman to write her own opinion.

Some of the best tech blogs I've read have been by Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Now, she's apparently their Microsoft watcher, and I find little or no use for anything from Redmond, but I always read Mary Jo Foley, because she's honest and objective, which is a lot more than can be said of some others.
 
tablo13 said:
This looks promising. The blackberry phones are a piece of sh--. Bad UI, trackball that never works... I would love to try this thing in real life when it comes out. Competition is always good :D (probably the 200th person to say this)
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The BlackBerry Pearl was quite possibly the best overall device of this generation in terms of "just works". The Curve did what the iPhone so far has failed to do - permeate fully the business AND consumer spaces. And of course, email on any BlackBerry is still superior to any other device, including even Wndows Mobile.

That said, I am eager to test it out, but I really don't have high hopes.
 
NebulaClash said:
And the iPhone began internal development as the iPad before becoming a phone first. Which came out in 2007. So yeah, RIM is copying the look.
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That my friend sounds like a stupid argument if you're basing ONLY on the "look"

Tablets or MIDs have been around for over a decade; that the basic "look" Apple copied. Traders on the NASDAQ or NYSE use tablets/mids - sure they use stylii but their basic "look" is virtually the same.

Oh and there is more than 1 way to make a finger touch capacitive touch display even with multi-touch and although Apple has lots of patents MANY other ways existed before iPhone development was known. In fact a thread here exists highlighting one OEM that meant to outsource their code for it.
 
Prom1 said:
That my friend sounds like a stupid argument if you're basing ONLY on the "look"

Tablets or MIDs have been around for over a decade; that the basic "look" Apple copied. Traders on the NASDAQ or NYSE use tablets/mids - sure they use stylii but their basic "look" is virtually the same.

Oh and there is more than 1 way to make a finger touch capacitive touch display even with multi-touch and although Apple has lots of patents MANY other ways existed before iPhone development was known. In fact a thread here exists highlighting one OEM that meant to outsource their code for it.
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Of course tablets have been around far longer. You know what makes a tablet? Something physically shaped like a tablet. Ever since Moses came down from the mountain people have copied the shape. So obviously, clearly, and intuitively I could not possibly have been talking about tablets in general. You knew that but disingenuously posted what you did anyway to make your point.

No, my point was that the look of the screen, the way the OS works, the appearance that screams "iPhone" is what companies are copying. Smart phones looked one way before the iPhone came out. Now they all look like iPhones. Same thing is happening with the look of the iPad. Other companies saw how popular the iPad is, so they started making their tablets look like iPads.
 
NebulaClash said:
Of course tablets have been around far longer. You know what makes a tablet? Something physically shaped like a tablet. Ever since Moses came down from the mountain people have copied the shape. So obviously, clearly, and intuitively I could not possibly have been talking about tablets in general. You knew that but disingenuously posted what you did anyway to make your point.

No, my point was that the look of the screen, the way the OS works, the appearance that screams "iPhone" is what companies are copying. Smart phones looked one way before the iPhone came out. Now they all look like iPhones. Same thing is happening with the look of the iPad. Other companies saw how popular the iPad is, so they started making their tablets look like iPads.
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Moses... when was that exactly. My history's a little rusty.

:)
 
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