Originally Posted by
Thunderbuck I will raise the point (yet again) that there were very likely BUSINESS ISSUES that were as difficult (or more) to resolve than the technical ones.
Let me speculate on a couple of them: Zinio was kind of a big deal when it finally launched on the Playbook, but there is no BB10 version. Why? It was replaced by BlackBerry Newsstand for some reason, and based on a different provider's infrastructure. Zinio has likely decided that BB10 isn't worth their while to support. So, what does a user do if he has a big Zinio library, but wants to migrate to BB10 on his Playbook? If there's no app, that suddenly becomes a problem.
There's also the issue of Video Store purchases; PlayBook purchases don't show up in the user history on BB World on a Z10, so even though it's the same partner (Rovi), it looks like it might be two different agreements. Might users who'd purchased content on the PlayBook have been required to RE-PURCHASE it if they upgraded to BB10? I could see that getting ugly in a hurry.
There are likely hundreds of other examples. Suffice to say, it wasn't just technical issues that got in the way here.