Playbooks Aren’t So Fun to Play With.
by Melissa Chau ~ October 28th, 2011. Filed under: Uncategorized.Breaking into the highly competitive touchpad market isn’t a very easy task to do especially when Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tablet already pretty much dominate. With BlackBerry’s Playbook, not doing so well, RIM is practically begging businesses to buy them. Even after lowering their high price of $499 to $299, sales are still low and to the point that they are offering buy 2 get 1 free offers. On top of that, RIM has announced that they will be delaying their software update (Blackberry OS 2.0) until late February of next year. Delaying the update will probably shoot down any of their remaining chances of making sales this holiday season. Playbooks have been doing so poorly that they have only sold around 700,000 units since April, about as many iPads Apple sells in a week.