The obvious problems aside – no native email client, poor browsing, wonky Flash support – it’s clear that RIM took lots of care to produce a device that would appeal to their core audience…”

Erm, right. Is that the core audience that doesn’t value email or the web? The same core audience that is required to own a Blackberry so they can get email and calendar on their PlayBook?

It’s a good job That “RIM took lots of care”. Imagine the device they’d have produced if they had been happy just churning out an unfinished, misjudged copycat device.
RIM, Caught Between Work And Whimsy, Has Lost Its Way
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/18/rim-caught-between-work-and-whimsy-has-lost-its-way/

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