RIM Playbook. Limited sale... $200

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Blackberry Curve 9360, I also have the older Curve (a co-worker quit and i'm monitoring his cell phone for incoming service calls)

so on a normal day i carry my iphone, and two blackberry's with me....

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CruisnGrrl said:
my aunt has an iPad (dunno which one). no smart phone. uses it with wifi around the house, doesn't tether it to anything.
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I have a PB and can use the wifi without tether. Love the PB use it for work it is a good work tablet which is what it was designed for.
 
turbodish said:
Besides, the real money is in the ongoing service plans. If discounting Playbooks leads to greater adoption by individuals and business, that in turn leads to greater potential for user lock-in, market penetration, which in turn pays off in potential for more income from data plans, more app writers supporting the Playbook, more brand recognition leading to more sales.
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You're right, not important at all

http://iphone.macnn.com/articles/10/03/02/device.could.grow.to.50.percent.of.revenue/#

Average iPhone selling prices are instead said to be going up, from $588 in Apple's third fiscal quarter of last year to $638 in the first quarter of 2010. Customers and carriers are meanwhile ignoring price issues, still choosing to pay the high costs of buying and selling the device. Apple is also noted to have a long history of charging high margins on its Mac products, which has only helped the company. "We would argue that the reason for such margin disparity is that Apple's products have unique software and user experiences, which differentiates them from commodity hardware offerings," says Sacconaghi.
 
Red_Liner740 said:
ya know what....Screw RIM.

so i have a BB and i just bought a Playbook....setting them up i get a notice that my BB has an update...so i download the update and install it. So then i try to bridge the BB and Playbook and for that i need to go online for some god awful reason...No problemo i have WiFi. Click on the blackberry world app "Data plan is not an option" or something along those lines....so i google it and MOTHER****ING RIM has agreed to limit capabilities of the Blackberrys over the WiFi to force more people to get data, and to use up more data bandwidth...

I have Data, and its a corporate account and i dont really care what my usage is. The problem is that my area has really ****** reception and i have no 3G/Edge or even regular signal in my basement (where i like to spend my time).

So for me to Bridge these two devices right now, i have to go outside like a moron and try to get a solid 3G signal when i have perfectly good WiFi at home...

i hope they do sink...that and their haphazard BB menu and navigation...Nothing is intuitive, NOTHING!!
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yup, i agree with this sentiment, (except the sinking part), damn frustrating thought processes going on at rim...and have they fixed the native email support to work over wifi yet?
 
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Sorry to go off in a tangent. It's odd how no one really cared when the iPad competitors were selling their tablets at full price. And when the price was lowered, people still clamor all over it!!

iPad still holds strong in the market when it's still the most expensive and not the most powerful tablet. That's odd too, but when you put a face behind all the products you sell (Steve Jobs) that's exactly what you can do.

Anyway sorry again to go off on a tangent..
 
If you have a corporate "enterprise" BB it may not bridge unless you have your IT department allow the bridge software to activate, just as some enterprise restrict you having another e-mail account other than your corporate desktop.
 
Jinster81 said:
Sorry to go off in a tangent. It's odd how no one really cared when the iPad competitors were selling their tablets at full price. And when the price was lowered, people still clamor all over it!!

iPad still holds strong in the market when it's still the most expensive and not the most powerful tablet. That's odd too, but when you put a face behind all the products you sell (Steve Jobs) that's exactly what you can do.

Anyway sorry again to go off on a tangent..
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regardless of how powerful the equipment is it's just a paperweight with out the software to run it, this is where the apple kit excels for the mobile market. most shops will put out an iphone version (though android is becoming as popular) and then release the other stuff.
 
Jinster81 said:
Sorry to go off in a tangent. It's odd how no one really cared when the iPad competitors were selling their tablets at full price. And when the price was lowered, people still clamor all over it!!

iPad still holds strong in the market when it's still the most expensive and not the most powerful tablet. That's odd too, but when you put a face behind all the products you sell (Steve Jobs) that's exactly what you can do.

Anyway sorry again to go off on a tangent..
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What does "powerful" mean? It doesn't have a processor which functions at the highest numerical frequency? It doesn't have as much RAM? The numbers on a piece of paper are higher for the other tablets then?

Because I'd argue its easily the most powerful of any tablet. It has easily the best integrated operating system with the best and biggest library of available software, which means its the most versatile, and thus powerful, of the bunch. The proof is in the sales and adoption. iPad is essentially the only tablet on the market. Nobody has made a successful competing product.
 
mmmnaked said:
Oh boy, I hope you're not counting on your wife's job at RIM to carry you to retirement! I predict she'll be looking for work within 12-18 months... :(
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If you were that good at predicting the future, you should be playing the stock market.
 
Jist ordered my 32G at Staples today, paid for it and should be in by Nov 30th. (limit 1 per customer) They only had a few left on their Nov 30th order. A customer was demanding a second and third for his friends but they held firm. Good for them!
 
STARSHIP said:
. A customer was demanding a second and third for his friends but they held firm. Good for them!
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He could just go to a different Staples store and order another? He could even use a phony name. They don't check.

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SunnY S said:
I paid for a new house with all the money I saved not buying overpriced Apple product. :rolleyes:
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See the difference here is that one of us (you) is full of crap and the other one is honest. There's lots of money to be made from poorly managed companies like RIM and I've been betting on their demise for a year now.

Thankfully I also have a good job, so even without RIM failing I can still easily afford the high quality products from Apple. You can have my old blackberries if you'd like though :lol: maybe they'll tether to your cheap playbook
 
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