Originally Posted by
blueberrymerry I guess the sore point after all these years is that BB promised a lot of things for the PlayBook, then procrastinated, then quietly and unceremoniously dumped the half-finished platform in the trash.
Your typical Android tablet circa-2011/2012 may be stuck with Gingerbread or if you're lucky, an ICS update, but they're still very much usable because a lot of new Android apps can still run on older versions. I'm rocking a late-2011 tablet with Android 4.1 that runs the vast majority of apps without any issue. Bank apps, work apps, games, all are being updated and I don't envision a Lollipop-only or Kitkat-only cutoff point for a few years. My PlayBook on the other hand has to make do with a small handful of abandoned apps or the useless browser.
Oh, and the irony is that my Android tablet's manufacturer only released an update from Android 3.2 to 4.0. The 4.1 update was courtesy of the hard work done by CyanogenMod hackers. No luck doing that with the PlayBook, thanks to BB's boneheaded focus on "security" at the expense of shafting loyal customers.
I also have a first-gen iPad Mini and Apple's support makes BB look like a shoddy lemonade stand. I can expect iOS 8 support for a year, maybe an update to iOS 9, with app support for years to come. I also have a Windows 8 tablet that will get Windows 10. Everyone's doing it properly except BB ;)
BB really alienated a ton of potential comeback users by dropping the PlayBook - I was thinking of getting a Passport because of the awesome keyboard but I'll pass after seeing the same "we don't need apps" and "tools not toys" nonsense on BB10.