What Happened to the Playbook price/value
I was looking at used Playbooks on Craigslist in DC and was surprised to see what little residual value my $500 Playbook has just a year later as compared to other less capable tablets. For less than $100 I can find a 16 or 32gb Playbook washington, DC all for sale / wanted classifieds "Playbook" - craigslist. Yet when I searched for iPad on Craigslist, they are selling at three times the price of a Playbook.
I realize this is nothing new for those of us that frequent Crackberry.
What is interesting is that a Blackberry Bold 9900 still sells for $300-400 on Craigslist. Wouldn't you expect the Playbook to have more residual value than a little cell phone? Is demand higher for a cell phone than a tablet? If the Playbook had come with a broadband transceiver would things have been much different today? Is the quick loss of value in the Playbook consumer sentiment toward the QNX operating system which is being used for the Blackberry 10 handset due out next year?
I have to wonder where RIM would be now if they had kept their focus on improving their phones and didn't follow Apple into the tablet market. Would RIM have a competitive phone right now. Would the stock still be worth holding onto?