After PlayBook OS 2.0, Will PlayBook Outsell the iPad 2?

[LetmesayOneLastThing]

Do you think the PlayBook will sell millions of units like iPad once the OS 2.0 comes out?
Will it outsell the iPad?

[brucep1]

1. No way
2. No way

[TheStoof]

Not without marketing.
Not without BBM.
Not without marketing.
Not without marking.
Not without BBM.

Repeat. Err. Repeat. *CRACKLE* REPEAAAAAAAAAAT

[silversun10]

of course, Apple will close down as soon as they read here OS2 is out, no question, all Apple users will line up at Best Buy for their PlayBook

[hootyhoo]

Is this a serious question?

[buffandsweet33]

now that's a good question. but i think apple users will always love their ipads and we will always love our playbooks. eventhough we paid roughly 50% less than they did and the playbook is WAYYY better!!

[kbz1960]

I say nope. Not for a couple years yet.

[xraytid]

Honestly no. Even though this is a major improvement for the PlayBook it still has a LONG way to go to being a major competitor to android and apple tablets. The lack of apps and productivity tools (not to mention easier user ability) have the PlayBook at a disadvantage. If the PlayBook STARTED OFF with OS 2.0 like software instead of half assed OS 1 then it may have taken a chunk away from the iPad but it didn't and was a learning experience for RIM

[Foberry]

Not impossible but highly improbable.

[Thunderbuck]

No. More to the point, it won't outsell the iPad 3, either.

HOWEVER, I fearlessly predict the iPad 3 won't meet projections; it's too mild an upgrade over the current generation. It's not totally unrealistic to think that the PlayBook may benefit from that.

[andino]

It will outsell the iPad2 when the iPad3 comes out. But not until then. It also won't outsell the iPad3. It will take time for the playbook to gain traction to be able to sell like that. Right now, there is so much negative stigma about RIM and the playbook that until they can do some proper marketing and get OS2 into the hands of devs, its not going to be much more than how it is now.

[Blkacesvf41]

Nope. Apple is a well oiled marketing machine and really manage to create a buzz around their products. Somehow people do fall for this cause you see how they line up to buy. I mean how many times can a prototype iPhone be lost and then the news hit the internet?

[Kekus]

However I should qualify my answer. The Playbook will outsell both the iPad 2 and iPad 3 for users that appreciate value, usability & portability and can find ways to get those things with the current Playbook set up. However, most of the people I know value games, movies, music, certain apps and that all important feeling that they are part of the 'in' crowd which can be credited to Apples marketing genius. Fortunately for both Apple and RIM the world has lots of both types of people.

If RIM can get it's entertainment content on par with Apples and can pick up some key apps, then someday RIM may be a competitor again - but I suspect that day is still a ways away.

[soxypirate]

no. if the price had been right from the start it could have perhaps created the same kind of buzz as the kindle fire, a far inferior tablet, IMO. RIM sent a message with the pricing that they wanted to play with the big boys (iPad), and the market sent the message that the PB just doesn't cut it. If the PB had been marketed from the start as a reasonably priced, reasonably featured alternative to the iPad...well, who knows.

As it is now, any $199 PB is seen as a deeply discounted iPad competitor, not a reasonably priced iPad alternative. One of those you want to buy, the other you do not.

[kennyliu]

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