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For me I'm annoyed because I feel ripped off at paying so much more than the current market price (yes, I know, "boo hoo" me), and I believed the statements RIM made about Apps, integrated email and the like coming soon, not in Feb 2012. If I had known it would be that long I would not have bought the PB, end of. I just feel, as a loyal RIM customer, horribly let down by this. RIM, repeat after me, "under promise, over deliver..."
I haven't taken part in any negative debates about the PB and I prefer to hang out in the 9900 forum where everyone talks about battery life and bricks. Much more fun
I note the OP returned his PB.12-09-11 06:29 AM - I remember when my father purchased his first computer. He chose the Osborne - remember that? I was 12 and he let me take it to school. (Man, was that ever heavy.) We went to the Osborne user group in Edmonton and I was so excited to talk to other owners about their computers with dad at my age and learn on the same level as they were.
Entering lines and lines of code to make simple games work consumed me and I couldn't wait for computers to mature. I envisioned color graphics and dragging and dropping between apps long long before the chips to do that were possible.
Now, in the palm of my hand, I can carry around this astounding tablet. ALL the tablets astound me. My local shopkeeper just picked up the Asus EE tablet and OMG he loaded Windows 7 and ran Photoshop CS on it in front of my eyes. I felt 12 again. He doesn't bash me about having my pb.
I have my pb and it is everything I need and more. I selected it from any number of toys I could have - I come here to learn about it. Sometimes it's frustrating when you don't understand what "side-loading" is, but with the folks in here all you have to do is ask and then you have the tools to further enjoy your user experience.
Thanks to everyone here for contributing to my PB experience and making this forum still the best resource online for anything BB.12-09-11 07:49 AM - In the end, those who complain about the PB not having this, or having that, or where are the egg laying invertebrate flying reptile games, etc forget that your smart phone, more often then not, has all these features; email, SMS texting, games, et al. The PB is just an extension of your BB phone, if you have one, and I find it redundant to have to duplicate what's on my phone on to the PB. For me, the PB as is, has all the apps I need, and then some. If I want to check my messages, that's where my smart phone comes in.
Bottom line, the haters, as evidenced by many admissions by these naysayers, no longer have or never had, a BB phone or PB.
12-09-11 08:09 AM - The BlackBerry PlayBook is not a toy you insensitive clod. An ill-named product does not a toy make. And yes I am aware of the US-centric meaning of "playbook."
That is your interpretation. You view the tablet as a toy simply based on passionate enthusiasm for the device. If you seek a toy tablet try an Etch-a-Sketch.It's interesting the way that some people get all heated about their iPad, Playbook or other tablet, when they routinely interact with more capable computers in their homes and offices that don't arouse emotions at all (except for occasional cursing). It makes me think that tablets really are personal toys for a lot of people--and I don't exclude myself.
12-09-11 08:16 AM - Well, I didn't buy my playbook to have to use a phone to take care of its shortcomings. And most people don't want something that is just an extension of their phone. But then you say its redundant to have duplicate functions? I think that just shows you're ignorant of what people want in a tablet - which is a wide range of desires including the ability to sms, email, play games etc.In the end, those who complain about the PB not having this, or having that, or where are the egg laying invertebrate flying reptile games, etc forget that your smart phone, more often then not, has all these features; email, SMS texting, games, et al. The PB is just an extension of your BB phone, if you have one, and I find it redundant to have to duplicate what's on my phone on to the PB. For me, the PB as is, has all the apps I need, and then some. If I want to check my messages, that's where my smart phone comes in.
Bottom line, the haters, as evidenced by many admissions by these naysayers, no longer have or never had, a BB phone or PB.12-09-11 09:54 AM
