the playbook is kind of like being the guy in the adult film industry with the smallest feet. there is nothing worse than having small feet around people with big feet. the bigger the feat, the more area to stink. size does matter, at least in the tablet wars. What happens if you are on a plane and the guy next to you has a bigger tablet? You get a terrorist is what happens or at least that is what they call it you on the news as in a fit of smaller tablet madness you opened the emergency exit door and leaped to your doom or freedom depending on what comes next.
It could happen. People have done crazier things. If you don't believe me, it is called reality TV and people holding spiders. You want to know why you live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada which is just too frickon cold? Smaller spiders and very little cockroaches. Apparently it can survive a nuclear winter, just not a Canadian one. I am that scare of spiders. It is why I will never, ever, ever, ever go to Australia. They have more fauna of spiders than any other place in the world. I don't know what fauna means but it sounds like a lot.
Yes I am afraid of the jumping spider. What were we talking about?
The playbook which I am too insecure to use because of the phalical implications of having the smallest tablet. Not to mention people with big feat have big hands and big hands don't like little tablets.
What is your feeling on size and the tablet wars?
Sadly this isn't my only problem with the playbook. I hated and I mean, I hated the way they marketed the playbook as a gaming and entertainment platform.
Think about it for a second.
Blackberry really was the tool for business people. Not everybody wants to be distracted by games and other stuff that just waste time. My boss would of never got me a tablet that allowed me to play games. It would of been the first thing he would of used to say not a chance. It was like blackberry stopped understanding it's core market.
If I am a boss, I want a tablet where I can turn off games, entertainment and anything else that isn't work related. I think a table is something that could increase productivity in certain areas.
With tools like square.com making it really easy to accept payments, paypal, facebook credits, amazon and google checkout you almost don't even need a cash registrar. Everything can be done with qr-codes and the camera on the tablet. We haven't even touched the surface in regards to what is possible with this. In time the product will cash itself out.
The point being there is a real need for something in the tablet market that was only really focused on business people. People who are trying to pay the bills, feed their kids, traveling the globe. Those of us who don't want to play games because life is exciting enough.
Advertisers want you to spend your life online. Happiness lives is spending less time online. Apple does games great and is fantastic as a night time entertainment device. If I ever become a vampire, I am going to get myself a bunch of glossy screen tablets.
It is so maddening knowing that none of the tablets are even remotely mobile. You can use them in the sun without frying your eyes. At night it is fantastic. The curse of the glossy screen is you need perfect light.
Get rid of the glossy screen.
The next thing you got to do is deal with all the roaming charges. When I am paying someone a ton of money to be on a road trip I don't need them to worry about little sms cards or calling cards. If you are big enough to compete with the big boys then you are big enough to make miracles happen by making your lawyers figure it out with the phone giants.
If you can reduce the roaming charges for business even a little, that goes a long way to justifying the cost of a tablet.
It should sync and be able to mimic a subset of a company database that will use the internet to update using encrypted data to do. It would also have an admin over ride because your contacts are your business. Data in any form is extremely valuable to most businesses and not something that should be shared without reservation.
That database should autosync to google maps where I can just drag my contacts onto a map. Click print directions, create trip report and send to gps or gps application. I actually prefer the Avis- Garmen GPS. The printed directions should really highlight how to get from airport to first hotel because GPS's never work in or around airports or boston.
I am done. My rant is over. I could go on, but you get the point. RIM wants to be a gaming platform and not tablet for the life of a business person which is really what everyone was hoping for.