PlayBook Feb 2012

Here we are on the eve of the launch of PlayBook OS 2.0, can't wait to try it out!

Something that has struck me recently is that whereas several months ago it seemed no one had a PlayBook, now it seems everyone and their dog has a PlayBook, especially in the Waterloo area where I expect a lot of people were able to take advantage of the $99 deal that RIM employees were offered for a few days, as well as the wider $199 offer. Many of my friends and family, perhaps the majority, have one. What a switch!

Sales of iTunes Sync are still fantastic, although they are unsurprisingly much lower than they were the week of Christmas.

I am curious to see when more details of BB 10 will start to emerge, and whether RIM will get devices of some kind into the hands of developers. I am definitely getting more excited about BB 10 for some reason, and about the QNX platform in general. Part of that is that, on the development side, the platform already supports so many languages and tools. It seems like QNX is not only leading the other platforms but way ahead in that sense. Pretty impressive.