23 thoughts on “∞ A solution for PlayBook users who want email”
Damn, you don’t even have to try anymore.
Of course, “Playbook user” would imply that someone actually owns one. Like, paid money for it.
That’s awesome!
Dirty pool, Jim
but very funny
To name a few, here are apps I’d greatly miss if I were to purchase and use PlayBook as my primary tablet: mail, calendar, contacts, facebook, twitter, GroupMe, Pulse, ReadItlater, DropCam, Alarm.com, Campfire, Instragram, EverNote, Qik, Google Maps, Camera+, GroupOn, Kindle, FlightTracker, DropBox, Fuze Meeting…holy F-me! Someone please explain to me like a 3-year old why I should plunk $500+ for the PlayBook?! -Vincent
I think you have a little bit of Steve Job’s jizz on you chin.
Damn Jim. Salt in wound much? 😉
And it has first class enterprise level security too.
ROTFL!!
Outstanding!
The Beard Rules!
Here in Ottawa, the local radio announcer was in the QNX offices. The manager their was touting the fact that it comes with a Need for Speed game that is really fun and looks great. Yet, most of the ads I’ve seen was touting the Playbook as “The first professional grade tablet.” So “Need for Speed” and lack of their rock-solid email makes it professional? They can’t even get their marketing message straight.
I really don’t understand them. They could have had a real product on their hands. But they left out their best feature, they didn’t line up developers, they put in a front-facing camera without a video conference solution; it’s like they’re trying to screw this up.
To be fair, they have a browser and can get all the webmail supported mail they want.
However, the thing that sticks in my craw about the “Web is the New Apps” people is the fact that when Apple debuted the iPhone with the *only* app option being web based programs, it was met with annoyance and puzzlement if not outright dismissal and derision.
Now that apps define the usefulness of a mobile device, be it a smartphone or a tablet, it’s time to dismiss apps as irrelevant because the web is going to take over?
I wish people who claim to know better would make up their fucking minds.
It’s an accessory to your Blackberry!
One extremely expensive accessory :).
You have offered some really good advice for all of us, who may need help with getting started.
What do you expect from an apple fan boy site! I have an iPad and initially configured the native email and then realized how stupid that was because anyone who I share my device with can now read all my emails. I quickly removed the configuration and went to webmail. The iPad is nice but I hardly ever carry it around. It is now relegated to my 3-year old to play Youtube videos on.
Do you share your phone with other people too? I think you’re doing it wrong.
You’re the one who came to the “fan boy site”. It’s like turning on PBS and being surprised when you end up bored.
Nicely played my friend, nicely played.
Are we talking about phones? Why should I duplicate my phone’s sensitive data on my tablet? Do you not foresee different members of the family using the same tablet? Are you that ignorant?
If this ignorant site didn’t come up in Google when I search Research in Motion, I certainly would not have visited it! Why does this Apple fan boy site find it necessary to negatively spin every BlackBerry news item?? Don’t even bother comparing this to something as credible as PBS. Please.
When RIM stops shooting itself in the foot every time one of its Co-Dependant-CEOs opens his mouth, we’ll stop making fun of RIM.
We’re talking about personal devices. The iPad is a personal device. It syncs to an individuals iTunes account. I agree with Your Name. I think you’re doing it wrong.
And you Google’d Research In Motion and you ended up on a Apple blog site? That’s awesome.
How am I doing it wrong? Why should I be limited to “how I do it”? The iPad is a person device and the PlayBook is a business device. Actually, the PlayBook is a business, family AND personal device.
Yes, I was sent to this totally unrelated site by articles like this one.
By “personal” I meant “individual”. Not to say that they can’t be shared by multiple people, but there are personal aspects of the device (email, Facebook account, iTune account) that are not designed to be shared. They’re not multi-user devices like PC’s. The Playbook is no different. Once you get your personal accounts set up you’re most likely not going to want to share your Playbook either. That’s all I meant by “you’re doing it wrong”.
Sure, the iPad can be shared – I share mine with my son, but only after removing the native email configuration. With the PlayBook, the point is you don’t have to set up your personal accounts because they are already set up on your phone, which is truly the individual device – I would not share my phone and each family member who is old enough has a phone, but with the PlayBook, sure why would I not share it?
If, in a certain ecosystem, a certain method seems impossible or difficult, then the first reaction for the people in that ecosystem will be to deem the method wrong, until they are taken above the flat plain of their ecosystem and shown that there are other possibilities and dimensions!
Damn, you don’t even have to try anymore.
Of course, “Playbook user” would imply that someone actually owns one. Like, paid money for it.
That’s awesome!
Dirty pool, Jim
but very funny
To name a few, here are apps I’d greatly miss if I were to purchase and use PlayBook as my primary tablet: mail, calendar, contacts, facebook, twitter, GroupMe, Pulse, ReadItlater, DropCam, Alarm.com, Campfire, Instragram, EverNote, Qik, Google Maps, Camera+, GroupOn, Kindle, FlightTracker, DropBox, Fuze Meeting…holy F-me! Someone please explain to me like a 3-year old why I should plunk $500+ for the PlayBook?! -Vincent
I think you have a little bit of Steve Job’s jizz on you chin.
Damn Jim. Salt in wound much? 😉
And it has first class enterprise level security too.
ROTFL!!
Outstanding!
The Beard Rules!
Here in Ottawa, the local radio announcer was in the QNX offices. The manager their was touting the fact that it comes with a Need for Speed game that is really fun and looks great. Yet, most of the ads I’ve seen was touting the Playbook as “The first professional grade tablet.” So “Need for Speed” and lack of their rock-solid email makes it professional? They can’t even get their marketing message straight.
I really don’t understand them. They could have had a real product on their hands. But they left out their best feature, they didn’t line up developers, they put in a front-facing camera without a video conference solution; it’s like they’re trying to screw this up.
To be fair, they have a browser and can get all the webmail supported mail they want.
However, the thing that sticks in my craw about the “Web is the New Apps” people is the fact that when Apple debuted the iPhone with the *only* app option being web based programs, it was met with annoyance and puzzlement if not outright dismissal and derision.
Now that apps define the usefulness of a mobile device, be it a smartphone or a tablet, it’s time to dismiss apps as irrelevant because the web is going to take over?
I wish people who claim to know better would make up their fucking minds.
It’s an accessory to your Blackberry!
One extremely expensive accessory :).
You have offered some really good advice for all of us, who may need help with getting started.
What do you expect from an apple fan boy site! I have an iPad and initially configured the native email and then realized how stupid that was because anyone who I share my device with can now read all my emails. I quickly removed the configuration and went to webmail. The iPad is nice but I hardly ever carry it around. It is now relegated to my 3-year old to play Youtube videos on.
Do you share your phone with other people too? I think you’re doing it wrong.
You’re the one who came to the “fan boy site”. It’s like turning on PBS and being surprised when you end up bored.
Nicely played my friend, nicely played.
Are we talking about phones? Why should I duplicate my phone’s sensitive data on my tablet? Do you not foresee different members of the family using the same tablet? Are you that ignorant?
If this ignorant site didn’t come up in Google when I search Research in Motion, I certainly would not have visited it! Why does this Apple fan boy site find it necessary to negatively spin every BlackBerry news item?? Don’t even bother comparing this to something as credible as PBS. Please.
When RIM stops shooting itself in the foot every time one of its Co-Dependant-CEOs opens his mouth, we’ll stop making fun of RIM.
We’re talking about personal devices. The iPad is a personal device. It syncs to an individuals iTunes account. I agree with Your Name. I think you’re doing it wrong.
And you Google’d Research In Motion and you ended up on a Apple blog site? That’s awesome.
How am I doing it wrong? Why should I be limited to “how I do it”? The iPad is a person device and the PlayBook is a business device. Actually, the PlayBook is a business, family AND personal device.
Yes, I was sent to this totally unrelated site by articles like this one.
By “personal” I meant “individual”. Not to say that they can’t be shared by multiple people, but there are personal aspects of the device (email, Facebook account, iTune account) that are not designed to be shared. They’re not multi-user devices like PC’s. The Playbook is no different. Once you get your personal accounts set up you’re most likely not going to want to share your Playbook either. That’s all I meant by “you’re doing it wrong”.
Sure, the iPad can be shared – I share mine with my son, but only after removing the native email configuration. With the PlayBook, the point is you don’t have to set up your personal accounts because they are already set up on your phone, which is truly the individual device – I would not share my phone and each family member who is old enough has a phone, but with the PlayBook, sure why would I not share it?
If, in a certain ecosystem, a certain method seems impossible or difficult, then the first reaction for the people in that ecosystem will be to deem the method wrong, until they are taken above the flat plain of their ecosystem and shown that there are other possibilities and dimensions!