Now that RIM and for February that will fix the native email issue--at least to a point--the PlayBook can turn itself around as the tablet for companies that enjoy RIM's secure email and other IT management tools.

Here are four reasons why the PlayBook's next OS can give the device some much-needed CPR.

1. Native Email Is Coming

Granted, it isn't the native email everyone wants just yet. You have to use another PIN for your PlayBook and for your BlackBerry smartphone. But it is coming.

Native email is important for a few reasons, the first that anyone with a RIM device is probably doing it for the secure push email that's funnelled through RIM's servers. This has been RIM's greatest strength (and a recent source of weakness when ). Any business that requires secure email--law or accounting firms, or any company in a hypercompetitive industry--is probably still using BlackBerry devices and will continue to do so unless another company builds a better mousetrap.