I disagree. RIM needs the playbook, because the future belongs to tablets. There's stuff you simply need la larger screen to do. However, the company should position the device as a business centric tablet and forget all that nonsense about running Android apps in a virtual machine. RIM should run ads boasting of the fact that "This tablet wasn't built to play Angry Birds. It was built to make your business run more smoothly." And then RIM needs to develop the most critical of these apps internally, since the developer community is going to take a while to warm up to the device. The playbook needs a web browser, a office/document viewer, an e-mail client, a calendar, an RDP client, and a few more things like that. Entertainment apps should be a distant afterthought.
Will this work to rescue RIM? I don't know. But RIM cannot comepete with Apple, Amazon or Android when it comes to building an entertainment tablet. The company needs to convince enterpise users that they need a secure device for their employees with a secure app market. They should also set up a team to develop bespoke tablet apps for corporate customers at a reasonable cost.
Will this work? Again, i have no idea, but i suspect it's their only hope.
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