Originally Posted by
gtredman The Tablet segment is the fastest growing within mobile technology and besides there is no clear dominant player in this department.
Did you REALLY type that? Do you REALLY believe that?
I'm an Android user and not an Apple fan, but there is absolutely no denying that the iPad is without question or argument the clear leader in the tablet segment of the market, and they are the defacto standard tablet for businesses. You can't be in denial about
that; the evidence is everywhere.
The other issue is that merely building a BB10 tablet wouldn't help, because a tablet is unsaleable without a strong app ecosystem behind it, and there are ZERO BB10 tablet apps. BB10 can't even do landscape mode at the moment, over a year after release. Tablets, without phone functionality, are strictly "app machines", and with no apps, you aren't going to get many people buying BB tablets. BB can't even go to developers and ask for support at this point - they've alienated a lot of their developers.
Maybe, if a bunch of things go really well, they'll be able to try again in a couple of years, but right now, a tablet would only harm BB. It would take development resources away from the phones (which still need all the dev time they can get), and another public flop would only reinforce BB's poor reputation with consumers.
Chen is wisely sticking to phones, and targeting the couple of markets where BB's strengths still have value. BB simply doesn't have the resources for a consumer play right now, not with phones and not with tablets.