iPad 2 may hit Android, but wait for BlackBerry PlayBook
Looking for more commentary about another aspect of health IT? Don’t forget that I’m now a regular contributor to MobiHealthNews. This week, I comment on the rave reviews coming in for the iPad 2, particularly from the healthcare sector, and note the significance of Microsoft discontinuing its Zune digital music player, the product that never did gain much traction against Apple’s ubiquitous iPod.
While it looks as if the Android platform may be losing out to the iPad in healthcare, I say don’t call this one for Apple just yet, at least not until Research in Motion comes out with its BlackBerry PlayBook next month.
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Why should we wait for PlayBook? You just sort of threw that out there without anything to back up your assertion. There are no apps. There is no SDK ready. It runs some Android apps designed for phones, not tablets. It doesn’t have email. And it’s still not out. It’s simply not mature enough to compete with iPad at this point. Unless you have something tO substantiate your assertion, that is.
Did you read the MobiHealthNews story I referenced?
I think your facts aren’t so straight, either. Why would a RIM product run Android apps? Why do you say there’s no email? That’s BlackBerry’s bread and butter.
I did. You only refer to Blackberry’s traditional enterprise security, though you don’t qualify this or in any way mention how or why it’s any better than the enterprise security of iPad/iOS.
Why would a RIM product run Android? Ask them – http://press.rim.com/release.jsp?id=4935
If I had to venture a guess I would say it’s because this is being rushed to market to catch up to Apple. Their native SDK isn’t ready so this is a stop gap and an attempt to make up the chasm of available apps.
I say there’s no email because, well, there is no email on PlayBook. It’s really just that simple. To access email requires a tethered BlackBerry. PlayBook doesn’t receive email on its own. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/128666/20110330/rim-blackberry-playbook-email-support.htm
I think my facts are just fine, wouldn’t you now agree? You should also look into iOS enterprise penetration. It’s better than Android. And iPads are quite literally the only tablet with enterprise penetration because essentially nothing has has shipped. I don’t see RIM successfully leveraging their BlackBerry success with PlayBook. They are mutually exclusive products. One can have a Blackberry phone and still use an iPad. There’s little to no benefit to a company for one to have the other as they don’t even utilize the same OS (PlayBook is QNX based, less than a year old at RIM, and on version 1.0 on a tablet).
Please point out if my facts are incorrect.
You’re trying to discredit a post written more than a week before news of Android compatibility and two weeks before news of the lack of e-mail support broke. Given this new information, I’d write my commentary differently. Check the dates before launching a personal attack.
I was responding to your reply, which was after the Android announcement. And it’s been known for months there would be no email support at launch.
The only point I made that would not have been relevant at the time of the initial post was Android. Everything else stands: no email support, no native SDK, no apps, immature OS, and it’s still not out.
It’s not a personal attack. I am simply stating the facts. You still have yet to respond to the facts. Your only assertion is that it will have enterprise security, yet you don’t compare that to iOS enterprise security which has been out for years.
You also imply that Blackberry penetration somehow will impact PlayBook penetration. But dont have any reasoning or logic to back that up. The two products don’t share a common ecosystem so I don’t see any advantage there.
What kind of proof do you want from me? I talk to a lot of CIOs, and I was stating my opinion based on that. Given the new information that’s come to light, I think PlayBook may be DOA.