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I won't lie, and if I earned any respect for myself in CrackBerry, it will vanish, but before I bought the PlayBook I wanted the iPad. I wanted a big screen and everything that those cool apple commercials told me I wanted (I know, I know). I couldn't afford it though, and so I was looking at the Kindle Fire. I heard about the PlayBook when it first came out, I remember it was like $600 or something and so I never bothered to research it.
Then I happened to see on Amazon the PlayBook for the same price as the Kindle (technically I couldn't really afford either, but I REALLY wanted a tablet). This wasn't my "dream tablet", it was about 2 months before OS2 was to be released, the specs were and still is amazing for the price (especially when comparing it to the Fire), the company was/is very customer oriented, the company is huge but is hurting (I love underdogs, they tend to have to amaze and innovate rather than just sitting on their profits. RIM is also a big company so that they the resources to amaze and innovate, hence the upcoming BB10), and BlackBerry is a good strong name (I was looking at Colby brand tablets too, wow, talk about dodging a bullet).
What got me to really like the purchase was that I compared it to my Android phone. The QNX based OS is much smoother and more perfected than the Android OS, the apps were much higher quality, the system could multitask, the OS could and would be updated without having to buy new hardware every year, and the OS looked much nicer. Though, there was a lack of Fart Apps for the the PlayBook, that was tough to leave behind...
(But now that they allow Android apps, there are plenty now..........)
I didn't want a 7 inch tablet but I found that I do like the smaller form. I can bring it with me easier and conceal it easier. It is just a bit more portable. That said, I still want a 10 inch tablet real bad, but I want a BB10 10 inch now.
As for the Apps, well that took time to get use to. Native apps are much higher quality and I find that there is enough apps now that I can get what I need. I have Kobo if I wanted books and I have Zenio for magazines. I kind of like having a third party media app for those because that means that I am not tied down to a specific brand in the future (ie if I bought through the Apple News Stand it means I need an Apple product to read my past magazines).
Games I find are plentiful, too plentiful imo. However I do have a good amount of games on my PlayBook. I normally go for the small, no name games without characters or story because if I wanted that I would play Skyrim or something on the Xbox. They are fun time consumers that you can start playing or stop playing anytime.
So, if you want something different and you have the money, go for something different. If you want to like the PlayBook, well stick with it. It is high quality hardware, excellent support, great fanbase (trying to suck up to you guys after admitting I wanted an iPad), high quality apps (though low in numbers now), and most importantly it will have BB10. BB10 will change the tablet space and there is already a lot of big app names announced that will support BB10. And not sure if you noticed, but RIM is putting out A LOT of patents lately, and I have the feeling it is because there are some companies out there that tend to "borrow" other companies ideas {cough, apple, cough} and claim them for themselves... those patents should allow for most of BB10 to be unique to RIM products. Without borrowing ideas and without innovation (aka without Steve Jobs), we all know how Apple faired.
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Longest post ever... sorry!
09-29-12 12:09 PM
