Sentences with phrase «rim marketed the playbook»

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In late 2010, with PlayBook development in full swing, some executives worried that RIM was neglecting its core enterprise market — industry jargon for business users.

To compound matters, on March 7, mere weeks ahead of the reported early - April launch of its much - anticipated PlayBook tablet, RIM chief marketing officer Keith Pardy announced his resignation just over a year after joining the company.

However, of course there is a delay, and RIM stated the BB10 update won't be coming to PlayBook until after the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones are out in the market.

RIM is all too happy to have hit upon that with the PlayBook tablet device that has gone on to garner a healthy 15 percent market share in Canada.

RIM's PlayBook OS is another choice, though its market presence has been insignificant compared to both iOS and Android.

The biggest blunder RIM made was rushing the PlayBook to market before apps and other standard features were ready.

With these factors in mind, within a couple of years, we expect Apple to maintain the lion's share of the growing tablet market — at least somewhere in the 50 % to 60 % range — with Android next, and the rest splitting the difference, including RIM's PlayBook / QNX platform, Palm's WebOS, and whatever Microsoft eventually brings to the game.

But the PlayBook is still missing a lot of the essentials I've come to expect from a tablet, making it feel like RIM rushed this thing to market before it was fully ready.

By that time, Android is projected to grab 38.6 % of the market, RIM's QNX, which powers BlackBerry PlayBook will have 10 %, and everyone else - MeeGo, WebOS and others - will have a minute 4.2 % combined.

â $ œWe believe RIM has stopped production of its PlayBook and is actively considering exiting the tablet market.

In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, the president of Sprintâ $ ™ s business markets group Paget Alves has confirmed that the carrier will not release the initially planned 4G WiMax version of the RIM PlayBook, citing weak demand from business customers.

In a research note sent to clients, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky is reporting that Research in Motion (RIM) has sold 250,000 Playbooks since its launch on April 19th.

The thousands of apps will be those approved by RIM, and part of that will likely be some minimal effort to boost the platform, if only because the market for Playbooks will be so different from Android's customers.

RIM has been marketing the PlayBook as the first «professional - grade» tablet, stressing its integration with the BlackBerry smartphone, a favorite among many business users.

A RIM spokesman told us that Android files converted to a Playbook version will not have their own individual section in the market.

Now, maybe RIM will be able to carry those costs for a while as the PlayBook tries to gain traction in the market but we'll see.

Since launching earlier this year, RIM's first tablet has struggled in the consumer market to keep pace with Apple Inc.'s iPad, which currently commands 61.3 % of the market, compared to about 3.3 % for the PlayBook, according to data from market research firm Strategy Analytics.

Hopefully RIM's PlayBook marketing efforts will clean up the mess as we near launch, but in the meantime I'll do my best to help the cause.

RIM's market value has plunged 77 percent in the last 12 months to about $ 6.8 billion following a series of disappointing quarterly reports, delayed phone launches, weak sales of the PlayBook tablet and other missteps.

RIM has already said that native email, PIM, etc. support will come to the PlayBook, but in the meantime the BlackBerry Bridge allows them to get into market quickly and securely.

If true, the backing of the Russian government could prove to be another victory for RIM as it seeks to use its reputation of prioritizing security technology to position the BlackBerry PlayBook as the tablet of choice for businesses and governments, the way it originally marketed its BlackBerry smartphones.

The BlackBerry 10 platform is built on the same OS as the BlackBerry PlayBook (in my opinion one of the best tablets alternative tablets out there) but the PlayBook lacked as rich app market and RIM seem to have realized that and are now going through there very important check list to ensure that BB10 is a success, I believe it will succeed, but in this smartphone market its really gonna be «trial and error» where RIM is allowed no errors.

Last time RIM announced coming soon it was for the Playbook, and look how long it took for that to come to market and its still not available worldwide.

RIM, known for its BlackBerry series of phones, had introduced PlayBook in June last year in the Indian market.

RIM's senior marketing VP Jeff McDowell has gone on record claiming their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will have «equal or greater» battery life than the Apple iPad while still having a battery pack that is smaller than the one that powers the Apple tablet.

Much unlike what HP boffins did to the TouchPad, the PlayBook tablet from RIM has not been pushed into oblivion in spite of it also not faring too well in the market.

This is the same policy that RIM adapts for Android Apps ported over to their Playbook market.

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will have access to the Android Market.

Microsoft Windows 7, RIM's Playbook, and HP webOS tablets will likely comprise the lion's share of the remaining 17 percent of the worldwide tablet market at that time.

In a note to investors on Wednesday, RBC Capital Markets General Manager Mike Abramsky suggested that sales of RIM's new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet may be exceeding the company's initial expectations.

With these factors in mind, within a couple of years, we expect Apple to maintain the lion's share of the growing tablet market — settling at least somewhere in the 50 % to 60 % range — with Android next, and the rest splitting the difference, including RIM's PlayBook / QNX platform, Palm's WebOS, and whatever Microsoft eventually brings to the game.

As both the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and BlackBerry PlayBook find their ways to other countries and markets, it is probably a safe bet to say that this is just the beginning of a new era for RIM.

RIM has promised to upgrade existing PlayBook hardware, but if you're in the market for a BlackBerry you might want to wait and see what BlackBerry 10 brings when it's released later this year.

Another big thing that RIM had promised PlayBook users was an Android App Player that would allow them to download and use applications from Google's Android Market.

«RIM is committed to the BlackBerry PlayBook and believes the tablet market is still in its infancy.

RIM is looking to the PlayBook to boost revenue as its share of the global smartphone market drops.

Mike Abramsky, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto with a «top pick» rating on RIM, said the PlayBook's popularity should increase with planned improvements for the software and hardware.

The PlayBook writedown is the latest in a steady stream of bad news for Waterloo, Ontario - based RIM, whose BlackBerry is losing market share to the iPhone and Android devices.

RIM only just began releasing the PlayBook to the global market today.

Via an emulator developed by RIM, the PlayBook is capable of running any app from the Android Market on its 7 - inch display.

RIM has made little progress with its PlayBook in the tablet computer market, shipping just one device for every 46 iPads that Apple sold in the latest quarter.

Lazaridis said at the time the PlayBook was worth continuing because the tablet market is still «in its infancy and that «based on the positive response to the promotions that are underway in select markets, RIM believes this strategy will accelerate adoption» of its new operating system and help built the application ecosystem for devices planned for 2012.

«We currently have no plans to release the BlackBerry PlayBook on O2 - we'll continue to look at all RIM's products to make sure we're offering our customers a range of the best products on the market,» the O2 spokesman said in an emailed statement on Friday.

So, can RIM's PlayBook take market share away from the Apple iPad?

That, too, could give RIM an advantage as it aggressively markets the PlayBook to its traditional base.

One thing RIM apparently isn't planning on is just releasing another tablet into the market — at least not the way it did with the PlayBook.

Well, RIM has officially announced that this won't be a problem — the BlackBerry PlayBook will have the ability to support both BlackBerry Java and Android apps (not from the Android Market).

The coming PlayBook tablet from Research in Motion (RIM) straddles the line between a consumer - centric and business - centric device, symbolic of the dilemma RIM faces serving both markets.

BBX Priorities - the silver lining of hope: Honestly, more than the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM's priorities right now are getting BBX BlackBerry Smartphones to market.

In a press release this morning, RIM (Research In Motion) announced it will be releasing the PlayBook to 16 new markets.