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Hope springs eternal.
However, in this case I reckon you are likely to be disappointed. RIM clearly have MAJOR problems with integrating QNX with their existing architecture and seem to be in exciting times with the Android player too. That's MAJOR spelt "insurmountable" maybe?
To declare a four month slip at this stage of the game, and coming on the heels of all of the previous disappointments and broken promises (Q1, 60days, Summer, etc), and to have that admission forced out of them by a press leak... is beyond embarrassing.
IMHO, an OS2 general release before end-February is as likely as snow in He11 on a hot day in July, and I'm not holding my breath that it'll even happen at end-February.
Flame on...10-26-11 12:26 PM - I can't say I'm surprised.
I can't say I'm impressed either. At least my PB does enough of what I want it to without v2. I am happy to see some better and interesting apps and games.
To be fair I'm not going to point fingers at anyone on the technical side. It's a good product, solid and great picture and sound. Just pricy for a portable media center that can do web given I was silly enough to be an early adopter for once
I've had more crashes on my Transformer tablet with latest Honeycomb than the latest PB, though we're talking about a handful compared to a couple.
However, if I have any complaints about all this, it's the Management/Communications/PR people either saying little or taking a page from that delusional Deputy PM from Iraq who would deny reality left, right and center. I know that a geek God like Adam Savage may say things like "I reject your reality and replace it with my own" but as a corporate strategy, unless you're delivering...
This bitter sounding message also comes as I'm sitting here wondering if the BIS/BBM network is down again...glad my contract isn't up for a year and a bit so I have time to not make a rash decision.10-26-11 04:33 PM - Erm...
followed by this a couple of days later...Alec Saunders: "It'll be out in the Fall"
And to top it off, the February release won't contain native BBM.We expect to deliver the new BlackBerry PlayBook OS to customers in February 2012...
- David J. Smith, SVP, BlackBerry PlayBook, Research In Motion
Depending on how generous you want to be in interpreting "Fall" and which end of February OS2-lite will drop, there's between one and four months between those official RIM quotes.
And that doesn't constitute a "slip"?
I'm jealous of your poster-child epitome status BTW... Can I be one too?Last edited by JeepBB; 10-26-11 at 05:15 PM.
10-26-11 04:55 PM - I believe that quote from Mr. Saunders was a tweet, not exactly what I'd call an official company declaration.
I once told a candidate who was interviewing for a position at my former company (a small financial services company) that the company's execs were so committed to the service they provided that they would never, ever consider selling the company to a bank for fear of diminishing the effectiveness and value of the services to their clients. The very next day we learned that we were being bought ... by a bank. I swear to God. This kind of sh*t happens to the best of us. (FYI ... the candidate wisely chose not to accept the position.)
That was an official company quote. If February comes and goes and there's still no OS 2.0, then you can get really mad if you want. I won't be around to see it because I'll be avoiding CrackBerry like a $5 streetwalker.followed by this a couple of days later...
Native BBM, while maybe disappointing to some, is completely understandable to me, and certainly mitigated by the BB bridge. Don't have a BB phone? Well, you couldn't have BBM without that anyway. You still have video chatting (which btw I have absolutely no use for).And to top it off, the February release won't contain native BBM.
Disappointing, yes. But only a slip inasmuch as it's taking them too long to deliver this stuff that would really set the PlayBook apart from the rest. As illustrated by digdah's comments above, there are still some of us who are basically as satisfied with the PB now as we were when it launched. It certainly isn't any less of a device now than it was then. And yeah, I'm getting tired of waiting for a few new features; but my wife was tired of waiting for Apple to release a new iPhone when her 3Gs was dying a slow death and was due for an upgrade months before the iP4s's release. She could have gotten a crappy old iP4, or waited patiently for what was coming next, whenever that was, because at the time all we had were rumors and speculation. She patiently waited. And guess what she did when she found out the next phone was NOT going to be an iPhone 5? She got the iP4s anyway and is thrilled with it. What can ya do ... ******** about it isn't going to change anything. Be happy with what you got, or get something else.Depending on how generous you want to be in interpreting "Fall" and which end of February OS2-lite will drop, there's between one and four months between those official RIM quotes.
And that doesn't constitute a "slip"?
No. There can be only one.I'm jealous of your poster-child epitome status BTW... Can I be one too?
Last edited by 18to7fiddy; 10-26-11 at 10:00 PM.
10-26-11 09:58 PM - LOL.
After over 5,000 views of this thread (which I guess reflects the level of interest in this news) the thread gets buried (I think that's the right word) in one of the sub-forums way down the page that I didn't even know existed before today!
No worries... it's your forum and you Mods can put posts wherever you want... but I have a sneaking suspicion that this thread would still be in the News forum if the headline was "RIM Triumphs! OS2 Due Friday"
Just sayin'
Last edited by JeepBB; 10-27-11 at 09:35 AM.
10-27-11 08:22 AM
Really now. Coming from you that's actually encouraging. 
