BB10 = The end of PlayBook?
I'm worried that the release of BlackBerry 10 is going to signal the end of the BlackBerry PlayBook.
For me, things on the BlackBerry platform are great right now. In my pocket I have my phone. Small, light, amazing battery life and awesome messaging experience. Then, for those moments when I need/in a position to use a bigger screen for browsing the web, reading emails, playing games, I pull my PlayBook out of my bag and use the awesome Bridge functionality.
The PlayBook is less of a tablet to me and more of an extra display for my phone.
I love this whole experience. This is perfect for me and the way I want to do things. I *don't* want the one device that does all. Different form factors/input devices are good for different things and the BB Phone/Playbook combo with bridge demonstrates this perfectly.
Herein lies my worry. The PlayBook feels to me to be an experiment by RIM. An attempt to fill the BB10 App World ready for its release. That the awesome bridge, extending, functionality that I love was designed to make up for the lack of features in its current phone OS, rather than cleverly extend its functionality as I use it.
Does this mean that once BB10 is released, and we have slate QNX based touch-smart phones that the PlayBook project is no longer required?