Even once in a while you read something that literally makes you laugh out loud. It happens to us all — tonight, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber did it to me. The funniest thing about his statement is that it is absolutely true. He’s talking about RIM and its quest to beat the iPad.
This really gets to the heart of what’s wrong with RIM. They seem primarily focused on catching up to the iPad, when they still haven’t caught up to the iPhone.
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Another one that made me laugh 🙂
In the consumer space, maybe. But don’t discount the entrenchment in enterprise. One could say RIM hasn’t caught up to the iPhone, but as far as enterprise management and security features goes, iPhone hasn’t caught up to RIM.
The difference here is Apple isn’t trying to become RIM, but it certainly looks like RIM wants to become Apple, at least as far as tablets are concerned. This Playbook better have some nifty enterprise features otherwise, people will see little reason to buy it over the iPad.