I Told You RIM Was in Trouble

Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by georgieporgie on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:08AM (#2371547)

it’s limited to the all-but-obsolete Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” runtime.

Uh. 3.0 was created specifically to address tablet concerns, was it not? 2.3 is still the new hotness for phones.

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Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by Samuel_Michon on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:38AM (#2371590)

For phones, sure, but certainly not for tablets. By the time that consumers can actually buy RIM's PlayBook tablet, how many developers will still be writing tablet apps for Android 2.3? All Android tablets that have any chance of taking market share from the iPad run Android 3 (Motorola's Xoom, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, etc).

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Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by Zev on Saturday March 26, 2011 @03:29AM (#2371574)

The PlayBook is a tablet, not a phone.

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Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by 5l on Saturday March 26, 2011 @08:53AM (#2371961)

And yet Apple also trumpeted the numbers of apps available for the iPad on launch, despite the vast majority of these being iPhone or iPod Touch apps not optimised for the tablet.

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Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by danilocampos on Saturday March 26, 2011 @09:34AM (#2372025)

That was a year ago, when they had no competition. Now the iPad has 65,000 apps optimized for its form factor. You don't get to compete with last year and still win.

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Re:I Told You RIM Was in Trouble by thought_alarm on Saturday March 26, 2011 @04:59AM (#2371684)

That, and 3.0 is still a closed-source and proprietary platform. It's also intended for 10-inch devices.

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