Let's Give RIM's PlayBook a Chance

25.03.2011
Poor Research in Motion. No matter what the company does, it just can't seem to drum up excitement for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.

This was a big week in PlayBook news. Tuesday brought official pricing of $499 and up, and a release date of April 19. Then on Thursday, RIM announced that the PlayBook .

But in the tech world, these announcements were met with apathy and, in some cases, hostility:

"Despite minor hardware improvements, the PlayBook with WiFi remains less competitive relative to both iPad 2 and Xoom," Stifel analyst Doug Reid . (Another analyst said in February.)

"I really want a PlayBook so that I can use 4-inch apps on a 7-inch screen," .

"RIM sounds confused like a drunken looser [sic]," said one reader at Business Insider, in response to .